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15-07-2005, 02:32 PM
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|  Ctrl/shift 'sticky' problems XP - tearing hair out I recently encouraged my parents to purchase a new evesham micro machine (PVR) which is excellent if you discount the numerous BSODs etc. Unfortunately since day one, there seems to be an issue with the ctrl, alt and shift keys. If you hold one down (unintentionally sometimes) it turns on an odd kind of mode which can only be solved by jabbing both sides (Left/Right Ctrl/shift/alt) until you can begin to type again. I can hear a number of people scream 'ah, you've enabled stickykeys' under XP. No, I haven't! All the boxes are unticked under the accessability options. The keyboard itself is a MS wireless multimedia keyboard. It is the bane of my life. Help! Tim N |
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15-07-2005, 03:26 PM
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| Have you got a bog standard keyboard to swap in and see if it's a keyboard error? "Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride. |
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15-07-2005, 05:59 PM
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| bought one today - I'll let you know. It's odd because it's consistant and undo's itself if you press the key a second time. It sounds like sticky keys, but isn't :- / Tim N |
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15-07-2005, 06:05 PM
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| I've only ever seen that kind of behaviour with dodgy KVM switches (and sometimes with remote desktop clients). PS/2 or USB keyboard? Tried both types? ~ I have CDO. It's like OCD except the letters are in alphabetical order, as they should be. ~ [ Personal Website ] - [ Technet Blog ] Main PC: Win7 x64 / Asus P6T Deluxe / Core i7 920 / 12GB DDR3 / 120GB SSD / GeForce GTX285 Server: W2K8 R2 / Asus P5K Premium / Core2 E6750 / 8GB DDR2 / 150GB, 500GB SATA2 / GeForce 9800GTX HTPC: Win7 x64 / Asus P5E-VM HDMI / Core2 E6850 / 4GB DDR2 / 400GB SATA2 / ATI 3650 Silent |
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