Hey thanks, I sure did and I was about ready to go to some really extreme actions, but luckily the answer was presented and saved me a load of work. However, what is really curious is that mouse keys obviously persist from the first user to all subsequent users it seems. That just doesn't make sense. I've got a bit of testing to do now that I understand the situation.
tnx, On Aug 6, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Søren Jensen wrote: > > Hi scott. > > Have you checked if there are any applications which starts up when > you log onto your user? Yu can check that in the accounts settings in > System preferences. > Best regards: > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > [email protected] > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > On 06/08/2009, at 01.00, Scott Howell wrote: > >> >> All, I posted this to another list and must have stumped the >> geniuses. First let me explain my setup. I have one of the new >> MacBook Pro 15-inch models. I generally use an external keyboard >> since I don't always need my machine for portable purposes. The >> other >> day I tried using the MBP's keyboard and and realized that all of the >> letters, numbers, spacebar, and caps lock keys do not work. Now >> before you say hardware, it is not hardware related. I have a test >> account and 9 out of 10 times I can log into this account and >> everything works as expected. If I log into my own account first, >> then >> I can't use the MBP's keyboard to log into any other account. Now >> the >> weird part is the external keyboard works perfectly and is not >> affected by whatever the hell is going on. I tried an archive and >> install with no success, I have booted from another Leopard disk and >> it works fine, I even just did the upgrade to 10.5.8, and this had no >> affect on my issue. I believe there is some software that is causing >> the problem, but I have not located anything that has not already >> been >> there and this is a new issue. If anyone has any thoughts, it would >> be appreciated. I only installed an upgrade to Dragon Burn and a >> trial of Cocktail, which I removed, but do not believe this is the >> issue. I also did install a copy of ABBYY FineReader and I could >> certainly remove from my system, but again, I don't think this is the >> problem. There is something being loaded when I log into the system >> and seems to have an impact system-wide in that I have to login >> first. I could easily rebuild the system, but would prefer to avoid >> doing this if at all possible or I'm going to have to run out and >> find >> a firewire 800 drive. Migrating all of my data would be such a >> painful process since it would take quite a while. :) >> >> THanks, >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
