key strokes ignored Thread poster: Oliver Pekelharing
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Dell 3750, Windows 7 Home Premium
This afternoon my laptop has started displaying new behaviour. When I use certain keys or key combinations (particularly cntrl+arrow to jump from word to word or ctrl+shift+arrow to select several words, but also the arrow keys alone), they will occasionally not react, so I will have to press the key or key combination two or more (even several) times before it reacts. This has never happened before and this laptop is only a few months old. The beha... See more Dell 3750, Windows 7 Home Premium
This afternoon my laptop has started displaying new behaviour. When I use certain keys or key combinations (particularly cntrl+arrow to jump from word to word or ctrl+shift+arrow to select several words, but also the arrow keys alone), they will occasionally not react, so I will have to press the key or key combination two or more (even several) times before it reacts. This has never happened before and this laptop is only a few months old. The behaviour is not permanent but it is very regular and not restricted to any particular program. Nor can I conceive of any software I have running that could cause the problem. Any ideas? May I have inadvertently turned on or off some fast-key setting? Or is it the keyboard?
[Edited at 2012-01-02 15:23 GMT]
Sorry, I forgot I had an external keyboard. Am trying that first... Seems the problem was the laptop.
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| | | | Jean Lachaud 
United States
Local time: 14:58
English to French
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| dying keyboard? | Jan 2, 2012 |
To me, what you describe sounds like a dying keyboard. Have you turned over the laptop to get rid of the bread crumbs?
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JL01 wrote:
To me, what you describe sounds like a dying keyboard. Have you turned over the laptop to get rid of the bread crumbs?
I think, too, it's a keyboard problem.
Or try a keyboard vacuum cleaner (or air spray). It's astonishing how much dirt get's into a keyboard! Not only bread crumbs, but also cat hair, if you have a cat, and so on...
Good luck!
| | | | | Alternate solution: stand alone keyboard | Jan 2, 2012 |
I use a stand-alone keyboard plugged into my laptop, which, inter alia, I find much more ergonometric and efficient (keys farther apart, separate "numerical" keyboard, etc.). If your problem is a keyboard problem with your laptop, plugging one of these in to one of your laptop's USB ports will solve the problem. These stand alone keyboards come in a wide range or prices, but the most expensive ones have all sorts of built-in programming that just mimic your computer's program and complicate thin... See more I use a stand-alone keyboard plugged into my laptop, which, inter alia, I find much more ergonometric and efficient (keys farther apart, separate "numerical" keyboard, etc.). If your problem is a keyboard problem with your laptop, plugging one of these in to one of your laptop's USB ports will solve the problem. These stand alone keyboards come in a wide range or prices, but the most expensive ones have all sorts of built-in programming that just mimic your computer's program and complicate things. An absolute plain vanilla one only costs about thirty bucks, and as I said, is more comfortable to use than a laptop keyboard.
Anyway, good luck.
[Edited at 2012-01-02 18:16 GMT]
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