I cannot click and drag anything, I have the V tool selected

I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the different versions of after effects and the problem persists, it happened after the most recent updated, I cannot click and drag from the project panel, I cannot click and drag layers through time. The timeline bottom window slider works fine (resetting windows explorer / doing the click and drag esc cache reset does not work / I did a restore image of windows) A fresh project seems fine, when I open a project from an older version I can drag files / move layers for a moment and then it stops - I have a log while in safe mode with all the 3rd party plugins disabled and I can drag them for a moment and then they stop - I have all startup / background tasks (nvidia, epic games, steam ect.) all turned off - it is driving me nuts, I may have to rebuild the project from scratch fresh.