Shift Key State Stuck

[Guest]

My Window XP SP2 machine crashed night. When I rebooted it, I quickly
discovered that Windows “thought†the shift key on the keyboard was being
held down.

Typed letters were in caps and all the desktop and applications behaved as
if one of the shift keys was being held down. Very weird.

Silly me, I tried a different keyboard. No change. Using NAV 2005, I
scanned the machine for viruses and found nothing. I booted the machine and
went into the BIOS and tried typing text and the shift state seemed correct
(not all caps). Then, I booted the machine using a DOS diskette and
discovered that everything seemed fine under DOS as well.

But, when I went back into Windows, everything was messed up again… Feels
like some kind of virus or corruption but I have no idea how to fix it.

Any ideas?

 

[Mary Sauer]

The obvious maybe, your caps lock?

 

[John Dingley]

Your keyboard file may have been corrupted. Go into control panel, keyboard
and try reloding the drivers or rolling back then forward.

 

[Rock]

My Window XP SP2 machine crashed night. When I rebooted it, I quickly
discovered that Windows “thought†the shift key on the keyboard was being
held down.

Typed letters were in caps and all the desktop and applications behaved as
if one of the shift keys was being held down. Very weird.

Silly me, I tried a different keyboard. No change. Using NAV 2005, I
scanned the machine for viruses and found nothing. I booted the machine and
went into the BIOS and tried typing text and the shift state seemed correct
(not all caps). Then, I booted the machine using a DOS diskette and
discovered that everything seemed fine under DOS as well.

But, when I went back into Windows, everything was messed up again… Feels
like some kind of virus or corruption but I have no idea how to fix it.

Any ideas?

Try a system restore to just before the crash.

 

[Steve N.]

My Window XP SP2 machine crashed night. When I rebooted it, I quickly
discovered that Windows “thought†the shift key on the keyboard was being
held down.

Typed letters were in caps and all the desktop and applications behaved as
if one of the shift keys was being held down. Very weird.

Silly me, I tried a different keyboard. No change. Using NAV 2005, I
scanned the machine for viruses and found nothing. I booted the machine and
went into the BIOS and tried typing text and the shift state seemed correct
(not all caps). Then, I booted the machine using a DOS diskette and
discovered that everything seemed fine under DOS as well.

But, when I went back into Windows, everything was messed up again… Feels
like some kind of virus or corruption but I have no idea how to fix it.

Any ideas?

Go into Control Panel, Accessibilty Options and see if Sticky Keys is on.

Steve