riddles of the past

Running on Win 10 on HP laptop

Game runs OK.

But in some rooms - for example, the garage - there is a clue hidden in a coil in the middle of the room. But when I move my pointer to that point, it changes to the "Return to previous room" pointer and I cannot get to that clue.

Display is set to 1920X1080.

I have changed the display settings to smaller numbers, but the game overrides that to set its own size.

And I still cannot get to that clue.