Keyboards With Mind of Its Own!

Factual Questions
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I own an IBM Aptiva with a very annoying keyboard! The keyboard is smarter than it needs to be. When editing text, I prefer to move the cursor on the screen with the cursor keys, at times. This action makes the mouse act as if I had held down the button to “highlight” text on the screen. Now, I cannot use to mouse to “drop and click” to relocate the insertion point for new text elsewhere until I “disengage” the mouse. To “disengage” the mouse, I have to press the “shift” key everytime. Also, the keyboard likes to engage “caps lock” for me a lot, too!

Does anyone know how to STOP the keyboard from acting in a “smart” mode??? Ug! It’s SO @$%*&? annoying!

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Sounds like you have some of the accessibility options turned on. Go to the Control Panel and select Accessibility Options. Then examine the settings, especially “Use mouse keys” on the “Mouse” tab.

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if it is not the accessability options I bet you have a stuck shift key (This is a software option I think, but I mean a hardware-stuck key probably by non-diet soda) Check the togglable shift keys though- I (uselessly) don’t know which control panel to check though. Sorry.

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