Whats happening to my blender bone select?

ive been in discord blender servers and no one can fix my problem
this is more of my settings i guess cause when they open my file its working fine for them
ive tried almost everything (I guess) uninstall intall, deleting the appdata files, appending to new project, deleting appdata files and reinstall again

i am from 2.79 blender so i know enough knowledge up to animation to import to the game

so my problem is this:

i can only select bones by clicking the root bone multiple times

i clicked the bone 4 times to get up to the shoulder bone
as you can see i can forcely pick a bone by circle select but it doesnt set the bone to active you can still see the active bone was the shoulder bone because you can see the black outline in it

in this example we can see the black outline on the 2nd bone the body bone
and i only circle selected the shoulder bone then parented it while i didnt pick the body bone
i should be selecting the last bone to know where it should be parented right?
but here the last bone i selected was the shoulder bone and the body bone was still treated as the last selected cause it is the one who is active

new user can only post 2 links so ill continue here

i cant box select other bones and i can only box select the root bone that will select every bone

and here is the proof that i can only select bones by clicking the root bone multiple times

This seems like a bug, I would advise you in reporting it.

https://developer.blender.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/2/

:frowning: this might take a while if its really a bug right? and do they reply?
and why it is only in my computer? i tried reinstalling from the start

Well, as far as I know, they slowed down 2.79 development in favor of 2.80 but serious bugs are still being fixed,

in the mean time you can try to download a different build, there are many to choose from, if none of the 2.79 work you may try 2.78, there aren’t many significant differences.

latest 2.79:
https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.79/latest/

all blender versions:
https://download.blender.org/release/

so i tried to transfer the file in the pc from laptop and it worked just fine, its so weird