Keyboard Question

[na552590 0]

Please, can anyone help me with this problem:

 

When I hold the SHIFT key for few seconds, Windows XP "stops" until I release it. I can't move the mouse at that time. A beep is produced when I release. I tried it with WORDS and I noticed that after that it types only uppercases as if CAPS LOCK is enabled.

 

The problem I face is that I always need to hold down the SHIFT key during games. I do not want XP to "stop" at that time.

 

I have a dual boot XP/98, I do not have this problem with 98.

 

Thank you in advance,

Jacques

[American Zombie 0]

Sounds like the Accessibility "StickyKeys".

 

I always go into control panel and set all Accessibility Options to not use the shortcuts.

 

Go into control panel > Accessibility Options > Accessibility Options then untick all the boxes for Stickykeys, FilterKeys, ToggleKeys, etc.

 

I untick them all for keyboard, sound, display, etc. as I do not need Accessibility Options.

[na552590 0]

I went to the accessibility options. StickyKeys, FilterKeys, and ToggleKeys are all unticked.

 

(I mean when it says "use the shortcut" is unticked)

 

It seems that this is not the problem.

 

Thanks for trying to help.

 

Do you have any other suggestions?

[na552590 0]

I enabled "StickyKeys" for a while to see what happens.

 

"StickyKeys" does a different beep when I press SHIFT.

 

So what happened was the following:

 

1)I press SHIFT -> "StickyKeys" beep

 

2)I keep holding SHIFT down -> XP stops

 

3)I release SHIFT -> A different beep

 

After this test I disabled "StickyKeys"

 

I hope this would give you a clue.

 

Thank you for any help you can give me.