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webmigit

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Aug 3, 2001
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I posted this by accident in the NT forum... but didn't want to double-post, so I waited for an answer and didn't get one... As I've got to be at work tomorrow morning, I'd like to resolve this... so am posting here too.

I opened notepad today... to change a file... I hit Control+F to open the find-box to find the text near where I wanted to change... and since then, text has been highlighting as if I were holding down the shift key.

If I use arrows, text highlights... If I use the mouse (thank God) text is not highlighted and I can click from spot to spot.. but still majorly a pain as I rely on the arrow keys quite a bit (habit).

I don't know a whole lot about hot keys but I looked around and couldn't find anything... I'd google this, but don't know what text to google for.

By the way, though it started in notepad, its doing it in all programs now.
 
Have you tried replacing the keyboard and rebooting to see if that fixes the issue?

 
No... I've resolved the issue, apparently restarting fixed it..

I don't know... shift key stuck in memory some how?

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