Dull computer-related question

[Alex B]

My shift key used to move my cursor to the next field on a page, but it's just (i.e. this morning) decided to change what screen I'm looking at instead. Any ideas as to how I can reset it or something?

Cheers,

Alex

[ultrafilter]

Make sure that the ctrl and alt keys aren't stuck down (assuming you're on a PC).

[Kalashnikov]

I think you mean your tab key, not shift. That's what normally moves you to the next field.

It sounds like one of your alt keys is stuck down, because alt-tab does switch you from one application to another.

[Alex B]

Wow...not only did you know the answer to my question you actually knew what the question really was.

Yes, I meant the TAB key, and yes, pressing ALT GR (whatever the hell that is) sorted it out.

I love SDMB.

Alex

[Crusoe]

Sometimes Windows confuses TAB and ALT-TAB. It happens to me quite a lot. To get TAB working as you'd expect, just use ALT-TAB to cycle through your screens. TAB should work normally after that.