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janaage
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« on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 10:54:49 »

A colleague of mine (honest it's not me) has managed to some how lock her keyboard.  Now none of the keys work, she lent on the keyboard now nothing happens when she goes to type.

The keyboard hot keys, like the internet button still work but none of the typewriter keys.  Anyone know how to undo this?

Cheers in advance.
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« Reply #1 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 10:57:57 »

Vista?
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« Reply #2 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 10:58:37 »

no windows xp I think.
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« Reply #3 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:00:14 »

Have they tried unplugging the keyboard then reconnecting it,they may have to reboot the pc tho.
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« Reply #4 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:01:57 »

The keyboard "hot keys" i.e. shortcut to windows media, and shortcut to their internet homepage still works though it's just all the character keys, letters numbers, space bar etc none of them work.

Problem is if she reboots and it's still not working she won't be able to log on.  So was looking for help prior to going down that road really.
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:04:32 »

Is it a USB keyboard?
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« Reply #6 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:05:20 »

No it's not (I don't think)
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« Reply #7 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:07:53 »

Press both shift keys at the same time. It sounds like filter keys or sticky keys as it's sometimes called.
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:22:06 »

That got us on the right track barry, couldn't do exactly what you asked us to do but we got there!!  Cheers for that!
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:57:25 »

You couldn't press both of the shift keys at the same time?

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« Reply #10 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:58:53 »

You couldn't press both of the shift keys at the same time?


they only type with 1 finger
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« Reply #11 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 11:59:22 »

Sticky keys is so fucking annoying.
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, September 19, 2008, 12:01:38 »

It's like candyman, you do the same thing 5 times and bad stuff happens.
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