<ctrl>key becomes <ctrl><alt>key command

[MinalMoe]

Running Windows XP, after a long period of working, the operating system starts to interpret <ctrl>key commands as <ctrl><alt>key commands. Often the keyboard won't accept any input and only the mouse works.

Has anybody ever come across this before, and is there an answer to it.

Thanks

 

[linney]

Maybe it is just a faulty keyboard (or connection), do you have another one you can try?

 

[PedalSteel]

> Running Windows XP, after a long period of working, the operating system starts to interpret <ctrl>key commands as <ctrl><alt>key commands. Often the keyboard won't accept any input and only the mouse works.

I don't have a solution, but I wish I did. I've seen this behaviour on two laptops and a desktop. Sometimes other bad things happen at the same time, such as the inability to type in lower-case, whether the CapsLock light is on or off. I guess it's clunky code in the keyboard driver.

Sometimes logoff/logon fixes it, sometimes reboot is needed. Just another miracle from Redmond.

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