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by ravenhawk 1 view

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I have a user (at home) using Windows XP Home SP2. He says his child was playing with the keyboard and now when he types a single character such as 'h' the help menu will come up. Stickykeys shows not to be active. Other examples are typing the 'f' key will bring down the file menu and if you hit any other action key it will launch if that menu is opened. Example: typing 'fo...' will first bring down the file menu followed by the open popup screen. Again, it's not Stickykeys. Any ideas?

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by bfilmfan

A keyboard shortcut Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program running perhaps?

A stuck key on teh keyboard?

What happens when you replace the keyboard with a known good working one?

by ravenhawk

It's not the keyboard. All the other XP user profiles do not have the same issue. It's only in this one profile.

by hal 9000

You'll have to bring up the Windows Task Manager and go through all the running applications there is something there that is causing this to happen.

Since it is confined to just one user account it has to be something peculiar to that account so look at the other user accounts and see how they differ but first have a look at what is running.

Col

by ravenhawk

It only affects one account, when the user logs into any other of the XP use accounts there is no issue.

by shashank

check the accessibility options under control panel under the keyboard tab uncheck any options that might be checked

by ruthumz

I have the exact same problem. Can anyone help? Or have you fixed it yet?
Thanks in advance.

by c_g_baxter

Me too! Help someone please - My computer is now a very expensive paperweight, and my name is Mud around the home!!

by c_g_baxter

Right, just to log the resolution...

Armed with many printouts concerning StickyKeys, I went home and pressed SHIFT five times...and didn't get the dialogue box.

Went to Accessability options via Control Panel; everything was checked which should be and wasn't checked which shouldn't be. Went to the 'General' tab and set the Accessability options reset to 5 mins (just in case I fixed it and inadvertently did it again at a later date).

Exited Accessability Options, problem still there. P*ss!!

Idly pressed the Windows logo key once....and cured the problem.

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