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    Help please! Keyboard is freaking out

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jack24, Sep 16, 2009.

  1. jack24

    jack24 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone. I just bought a low end dell inspiron 1545. It's been great except the keyboard is doing some weird stuff. It's acting like the control button is stuck down, but not all the time.
    I made sure the sticky keys were turned off, and that the shortcut to turn them on (shift 5 times) was also turned off. But my computer still randomly opens windows, selects all text, and underlines stuff when I'm typing. A lot of times I won't even touch the control button and it will happen. It's very sporadic though.
    For example, I can just type a bunch of nonsense in word, and then suddenly when I hit the R button, the text right justifies, and then I'll type L and it goes back to left, and then I'll type some more and R and L show up as text and don't effect the justification. The computer is brand new, and I'm hoping the free upgrade to windows 7 will fix the problem, but that's not happening for a while.
     
    jack24, Sep 16, 2009
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Sometimes my keyboard does this. So what I do is I press Left Ctrl, Left Alt, Right Control, Right Alt, and the keys are reset.
     
    namaiki, Sep 16, 2009
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