Clicks not registering and getting stuck on tools (Photoshop)

I thought it was just me, however, a rudimentary search and I found others with a similar problem. 

This is what I experience - and, yes, it's VERY annoying: 

Let's say I have a vector shape, a rectangle, and I've selected the Move tool. I click on a corner of the shape and, immediately, my mouse pointer and mouse movement is "sticky" (I know I'm in the Move tool, but this behaviour is erratic and non-sensical). Instead of having control over the shape and making my edits freely, the shape rotates if I move the mouse. I didn't choose to rotate the shape. Nor did I choose to randomly move it or resize it (as a whole, not even from the point I clicked!!) and, yet, that is exactly what happens. My instinct kicks in and hit the Escape key. Nothing, it doesn't stop. I right click my mouse button and whatever Photoshop is doing stops. But the shape doesn't snap back to how it was when I clicked on it - now it's a mess. Then, I have to click Ctrl Z to get it back to where I started and I can THEN make my edits to the shape. As I said, VERY annoying. 

FWIW, this occurs at random, from version to version. At times, it behaves and tools work as expected. Other time, a complete nightmare. The time lost to this... I don't want to think about it. And, it's been going on for many versions now. 

Please, look into this and, as the others have reported here, I also feel it's a bug in the software - I don't dabble with Tool settings, all default, nothing fancy going on here - just plain, vanilla Photoshop install. 

Looks like someone beat me to it. I do agree that this has to be some type of bug @Sk8Gnarley, seems like Im not the only one dealing with it.

Thank you @mglush. Unfortunatly, both of these methods didnt work. I dont think its the indvidual tools that are the problem but something with the program itself. I noticed this has started happening when I had updated it to the 24.2.1 version, although it could have gone on for longer as I reverted photoshop to the October update to stop the weekly program freezes and crashes that had been plauging me since new years.

This isn't really a good solution/reply. This is a bug in the application. Resetting tools and preferences every time we experience this bug is redundant and destroys workflow. The only solution that I know of is to completely restart app. It happens about every 20-40 minutes and stays forever. This bug needs to be fixed in an update asap.

Hi!

We are so sorry to hear that you are having this issue. There are a couple of things we can try. First, we can try resetting the tools. Click on the drop down menu for the tool in the Options bar and select the gear icon at the top righ of the panel, and from the dropdown menu, choose reset all tools.

If that doesn't help, then have you tried resetting your preferences? Please see this link for information on how to Manually reset your preferences: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

It would be helpful to read through it, but follow the steps to Reset them Manually.

Let us know if either of these work?

Thanks,

Michelle