Windows XP SP2, computer (e-machine) is a few years old, 512M memory, 2.7G processor.
This problem only started happening recently. Sometimes (this happens mostly in OE; it happened once when I was filling in a comment box on IE; it happened once in Word 2002) when I’m typing and my cat is on my lap, my left hand will accidentally hit 2 or 3 keys at the same time when I’m aiming for the Shift key (I don’t know which combo because my cat isn’t transparent), and the keys start putting out letters that aren’t the right ones. The keys I hit that cause this are probably Shift, Caps lock, CTRL, maybe the Start key, maybe A or Z — some combo of those.
In OE I can’t figure out what key combo will get the right letters back. When it happened in Word (it was happening at the same time in OE), CTRL-Shift fixed it in Word but not in OE. The only solution I’ve found so far is to shut all IE windows and OE and let it rest for 5 minutes or so.
Does anybody know what key combo totally screws up the alphabet in OE and if there’s a key combo or something else that’s not time-consuming that will fix the problem? “Don’t have your cat on your lap” isn’t an option.
