I have seen this behavior on new HP, COMPAQ, and DELL computers day 1 or 2 after startup. I press each Ctrl/Alt/Shift key the keyboard has and it releases the control. I have always contributed it to a quirk in the Windows keyboard driver. I've seen this behavior since Windows 95 days.
Tracy On Wed, August 6, 2008 11:12 pm, Whil Hentzen wrote: > (This is a new record, two ProFox posts in two days. For me, at least. > I'm reeling in shock. As many of you are, no doubt.) > > So I got a new box a while ago and had to put XP on it. It's the guy I > do all my Fox development on; there's nothing else on it from MSFT other > than what I absolutely have to have installed to run Fox. No SQL Server, > no email, no Office, no nothing. If a day goes by without needing Fox, > the box gathers dust. > > Ever since I installed XP, I've been getting quirky behavior. You know > how you can set up a box so that folks with various disabilities can use > it? For example, the sticky keys feature enables someone who types with > one hand to use Shift/Ctrl/Alt in combo with other keys. > > (In the olden days, those folks would fill the toe of a nylon with sand, > and then roll it on one of the aforementioned shift/alt/ctrl keys to > hold it down while they then pressed another key. If you're thinking of > Indiana Jones grabbing the golden idol in the beginning of the first IJ > movie, you've got it exactly right.) > > So there are these accessibility controls in XP. I swear I've turned > them all off, because my only disability is between the ears. But I'm > still getting sticky keys behavior. > > To wit: Every once in a while, maybe every couple of weeks or so, the UI > would act as if I was holding the shift key down. I'd be in a text > editor and as I moved the mouse, everything would get highlighted. I'd > alt-tab to Explorer and try to select a file. All of the files from the > top to the one I clicked on would be highlighted. (These are the only > two apps I use on this box, so I can't describe any other behavior.) > > I've thought that maybe I was absent-mindedly parking a finger on one of > the ancillary keys to turn this behavior on, so haven't worried that muc > about it. It is a pain, though, because I have to cold boot the damn box > to get it to stop. Simply logging out and back in isn't enough. > > I've been living with this cuz rebooting a Windows box every week or two > is just good practice. But it's happened twice this afternoon. The > second time I _know_ I wasn't dinking around with the keyboard. > > Any suggestions? > > Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
