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Active window or screen element switches to another when cursor moves beyond boundaries - NEED HELP PLEASE!

When the cursor moves beyond the boundary of the currently active (or top) window or element (e.g., status bar element, e.g., hidden tray icons, sound icon in tray, etc), the active window or element switches to the window/element where the cursor is now
positioned -- usually causing the previously active window/element to completely disappear.
 
It's infuriating and I've lost tens of hours of productivity (at least!) in the past 2 years of owning this PC with Win 8/8.1 pre-installed,
The perfect example is the hidden icons in the tray.
 when my status bar rises (per settings) and I move the cursor to the up arrow for the hidden icons, the tiny window showing the hidden icons rises above the status bar.
 There is a sliver of desktop separating
the two elements.
 When I move the cursor beyond the boundary of the currently active element (the up arrow on the status bar), the hidden icons window disappears/recedes beneath the status bar.
 
The hidden icons window disappears whether I try to move the cursor up across the 1/8"or so of desktop that separates them AND ALSO when I simply move the cursor to the right or left within the boundaries of the status bar but off the boundary of the up
arrow.
The same thing happens if I have a stack of open browser windows (or maybe a couple of other files, like .doc files, etc -- anything -- the result is the same.
If I have 2 Chrome windows open and one is at full and the other is partially minimized.
 The partially minimized one if on top and currently active (i.e., the cursor is within the boundaries of that top window), then I may accidentally move the cursor off
(past the boundaries) of that top window onto the fully maximized window) -- no clicking involved, just the simple movement of the cursor causes the top window to disappear as the bottom window is "selected" and becomes the active window.
In the past, one needed to move the cursor AND RIGHT CLICK to select another screen element regardless of what the cursor passed over on it's way to the element one wanted to purposefully select!  As this currently behaves the user has no control except
to make sure that the cursor never moves off the active window,  That might not be so bad but (as in the case described above) there is virtually no way to select.
e.g.,  the hidden tray icons.
 I can eventually select the sound control that pops up above
the activated status bar -- but only with A LOT of patience and after REPEATED TRYS.
I've searched online (various keywords), in this community forum and others, and Windows help.
 I've checked and tried various settings that seemed relevant.
 No change.
This is a Dell Inspiron 3520, a little over 2 years old purchased at Costco.
 It had Windows 8 pre-installed and I downloaded and installed Win 8.1 4-6 months ago.
 When I first got the PC, this was a problem but after a few minor updates were downloaded
and installed within the first 3-4 months I owned this one, it seemed to be corrected -- UNTIL I INSTALLED WIN 8.1 when it reemerged and actually seems more persistent and intractable (although that may just be my frustration, LoL!)
PLEASE HELP -- I'm at my wit's end!!!!!!!!!

Anwsers to the Problem Active window or screen element switches to another when cursor moves beyond boundaries - NEED HELP PLEASE!

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I went to the Control Panel and in the Ease of Use section, there is a box under something like "mouse behavior" that was checked and was creating the entire problem.
 Unchecked the box -- didn't even
need to reboot.
I've NEVER been in that section of the control panel.
 
Apparently each time an update has been pushed out that setting may or may not have been changed.
 Sloppy standards on your part, Microsoft. 
This issue has been solved by the user who reported it: ME -- no thanks to any one else here with the exception that Robert happened to mention the Ease of Use settings while he was off on another tangent
and that got me thinking.

Running System Update Readiness Command

On running the System Update readiness Command, it will Detect & Replace Incorrect Registry data with the Correct one. Which may ultimately Solve Active window or screen element switches to another when cursor moves beyond boundaries - NEED HELP PLEASE! in Windows.

1. Open CMD as Administrator by Simply Right Clicking on Start button > Command Prompt (Admin).
2. Now Type or Copy paste "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth" and hit Enter,
3. Now again Type or Copy paste this "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth" and hit Enter.
4. Close the Command Prompt Window because we are done.

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