On 11/13/08, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/13 diane mittnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <snip> >> >> tia for any help, >> >> Di. >> > > Enable the Show Keyboard Status applet to ensure that you do not have > Sticky Keys enabled, or that for some other reason Ctrl is being held. > Note that pressing a modifier key 5 times in quick succession > activates Sticky Keys. > > -- > Dotan Cohen
Thanks, I'll search for which applet this is and enable it. The other thing I forgot to mention that may have triggered the sticky/stuck CTRL key was that just prior to the problem coming up I had performed an emergency sync (CTRL-ALT-SYSRQ-s) as I have a Toshiba laptop with a faulty video card (all Toshiba laptops that have a bios fix for a so called "intermittent" screen freeze in all probability have this issue and Toshiba is attempting to run out the warranty rather than recall the laptops), and I frequently sync the disk among other mitigation procedures to avoid losing data. So I might have hit a wrong key after the sync, together with CTRL or Alt and that may have triggered the sticky/stuck key. But thanks for the advice. Di. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
