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Shift Key State Stuck!!

markctpr

Junior Member
My Window XP SP2 machine crashed night. When I rebooted it, I quickly discovered that Windows ?thought? the shift key on the keyboard was being held down.

Typed letters were in caps and all the desktop and applications behaved as if one of the shift keys was being held down. Very weird.

Silly me, I tried a different keyboard. No change. Using NAV 2005, I scanned the machine for viruses and found nothing. I booted the machine and went into the BIOS and tried typing text and the shift state seemed correct (not all caps). Then, I booted the machine using a DOS diskette and discovered that everything seemed fine under DOS as well.

But, when I went back into Windows, everything was messed up again? Feels like some kind of virus or corruption but I have no idea how to fix it.

Any ideas?


 
it sounds like the sticky keys applet, check in the control panel --> keyboard settings and check for sticky keys being enabled.
 
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