Windows shift key gone crazy

**Skylark** · 01-07-2007, 06:23 PM

Everytime I use the left shift button, I get a search window (windows XP)

this is driving me crazy
I've searched everywhere on line and haven't found an answer yet

edit: i now see that the right shift brings up a yahoo internet browser pops up.

anyone know?

again, everytime i hit the shift button, a "search results" the search window for xp pops up, and minimizes world of warcraft or whatever game i'm playing.

thanks !!!!!!!!

freekyE · 01-08-2007, 01:28 PM

Wish i could help ya man. I assume youve tried all the usual culprits?

Do you have any keyboard/mouse software installed? my logitech software causes crazy things to happen so I cant really run it.

Could it be the keyboard? are you shure you (or someone in your house) havent spilled anything on it? Do you have a spare keyboard laying around to test this?

**Skylark** · 01-09-2007, 02:30 AM

I figured it out!

Water in my keyboard. I guess my wife must have spilled some. I picked the keyboard up to clean it, thinking that could be a problem and water POURED out onto my lap.

At that point, it stopped working completely. A quick trip to walmart and everything is fine.

Weird.

Lorian · 01-09-2007, 07:41 AM

Didn't it like, splash when you typed on it...?

**Wimpinator** · 01-09-2007, 03:16 PM

You can probably just disconnect it and let it dry out. It will probably work correctly once it's dry.

freekyE · 01-09-2007, 04:02 PM

^ ditto....if it was water, mountain dew just doesnt agree with hardware as much as id like it to.

**El_Gringo_Grande** · 01-09-2007, 06:22 PM

You might be able to save it even if it was drenched in sticky stuff.

Completly submerge it is water multiple times to make sure all the bad stuff is washed out then dry completly.

My daughter dumped a dr pepper on my wireless keyboard and this worked. As long as no corrosion takes place and it is completly dry when plugged back in could work.

Then again might not.

**Wimpinator** · 01-09-2007, 06:23 PM

The IT guy at the last company I worked for stuck keyboards in the shower when they got coke dumped in them. He let them air dry for a few days then used the for replacements.

01-07-2007, 06:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
Skylark Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kansas City area (U.S.A.) Age: 37 Posts: 1,420	Windows shift key gone crazy Everytime I use the left shift button, I get a search window (windows XP) this is driving me crazy I've searched everywhere on line and haven't found an answer yet edit: i now see that the right shift brings up a yahoo internet browser pops up. anyone know? again, everytime i hit the shift button, a "search results" the search window for xp pops up, and minimizes world of warcraft or whatever game i'm playing. thanks !!!!!!!! __________________ "There's two left. So there's one and someone else." Disciple Skylark \|TG PCS\| Last edited by Skylark; 01-07-2007 at 07:52 PM.

01-08-2007, 01:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
freekyE Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: indiana Posts: 1,000	Re: Windows shift key gone crazy Wish i could help ya man. I assume youve tried all the usual culprits? Do you have any keyboard/mouse software installed? my logitech software causes crazy things to happen so I cant really run it. Could it be the keyboard? are you shure you (or someone in your house) havent spilled anything on it? Do you have a spare keyboard laying around to test this?

01-09-2007, 02:30 AM	#3 (permalink)
Skylark Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kansas City area (U.S.A.) Age: 37 Posts: 1,420	Re: Windows shift key gone crazy I figured it out! Water in my keyboard. I guess my wife must have spilled some. I picked the keyboard up to clean it, thinking that could be a problem and water POURED out onto my lap. At that point, it stopped working completely. A quick trip to walmart and everything is fine. Weird. __________________ "There's two left. So there's one and someone else." Disciple Skylark \|TG PCS\|

01-09-2007, 07:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
Lorian Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: United Kingdom Age: 18 Posts: 2,040	Re: Windows shift key gone crazy Didn't it like, splash when you typed on it...? __________________ \|TG\| Lorian Member since 18th February 2006

01-09-2007, 03:16 PM	#5 (permalink)
Wimpinator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: United states, TN Age: 36 Posts: 3,021	Re: Windows shift key gone crazy You can probably just disconnect it and let it dry out. It will probably work correctly once it's dry. __________________ \|TG-6th\|Wimpinator BF2 Rules and SOP's\|Teamspeak information\|TG on IRC

01-09-2007, 04:02 PM	#6 (permalink)
freekyE Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: indiana Posts: 1,000	Re: Windows shift key gone crazy ^ ditto....if it was water, mountain dew just doesnt agree with hardware as much as id like it to.

01-09-2007, 06:22 PM	#7 (permalink)
El_Gringo_Grande Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: OKIE HOMY Age: 40 Posts: 2,970	Re: Windows shift key gone crazy You might be able to save it even if it was drenched in sticky stuff. Completly submerge it is water multiple times to make sure all the bad stuff is washed out then dry completly. My daughter dumped a dr pepper on my wireless keyboard and this worked. As long as no corrosion takes place and it is completly dry when plugged back in could work. Then again might not. __________________ I’m not racists, I have republican friends. Radio show host. - "The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity". -Jacob Burkhardt - "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Emerson - "People should not be afraid of it's government, government should be afraid of it's People." - Line from V for Vendetta - If software were as unreliable as economic theory, there wouldn't be a plane made of anything other than paper that could get off the ground. Jim Fawcette

01-09-2007, 06:23 PM	#8 (permalink)
Wimpinator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: United states, TN Age: 36 Posts: 3,021	Re: Windows shift key gone crazy The IT guy at the last company I worked for stuck keyboards in the shower when they got coke dumped in them. He let them air dry for a few days then used the for replacements. __________________ \|TG-6th\|Wimpinator BF2 Rules and SOP's\|Teamspeak information\|TG on IRC

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