Disabling FilterKeys when Accessibility Options are not installed

[Guest]

Hello
This may sound like a joke, but it's definitely not!
Our cat loves to sit on the keyboard, thanks to a nice warm Pentium
processor under the (notebook) keyboard. Well, we didn't get her off in time
and she inadvertently activated FilterKeys. All resources point me to the
"Keyboard" tab under "Accessibility Options", but my version of XP does not
have any Accessibility Options installed - the folder is empty and there are
no tabs. And - of course - the Notebook came with Windows pre-installed and
no discs.
Another tip out there was to hold down both SHIFT keys - I did this and it
did nothing. That FilterKey item is still there in the tray bottom right.
PLEASE can someone help. It's highly frustrating since I cannot - for
example - type any word with the same letter appearing twice. Like "letter".
Or "appearing". Arrrggghhhhhh

 

[Malke]

Hello
This may sound like a joke, but it's definitely not!
Our cat loves to sit on the keyboard, thanks to a nice warm Pentium
processor under the (notebook) keyboard. Well, we didn't get her off in time
and she inadvertently activated FilterKeys. All resources point me to the
"Keyboard" tab under "Accessibility Options", but my version of XP does not
have any Accessibility Options installed - the folder is empty and there are
no tabs. And - of course - the Notebook came with Windows pre-installed and
no discs.
Another tip out there was to hold down both SHIFT keys - I did this and it
did nothing. That FilterKey item is still there in the tray bottom right.
PLEASE can someone help. It's highly frustrating since I cannot - for
example - type any word with the same letter appearing twice. Like "letter".
Or "appearing". Arrrggghhhhhh

Since Kitty may have done more than just activate FilterKeys, try a
System Restore to a date before this happened.

Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore

"Restore my computer to an earlier time".


Malke

 

[Guest]

Thanks Malke. I assume this only restores the Windows components and not data
files attached to other application-level programs such as Quicken?

regards

 

[Malvern]

Others may know differently, but I remember seeing what you asked as being
the case. And my restore did not affect my data.

Malv

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Thanks Malke. I assume this only restores the Windows components and not data
files attached to other application-level programs such as Quicken?

Correct.

 

[Elmo]

Hello
This may sound like a joke, but it's definitely not!
Our cat loves to sit on the keyboard, thanks to a nice warm Pentium
processor under the (notebook) keyboard. Well, we didn't get her off in time
and she inadvertently activated FilterKeys. All resources point me to the
"Keyboard" tab under "Accessibility Options", but my version of XP does not
have any Accessibility Options installed - the folder is empty and there are
no tabs. And - of course - the Notebook came with Windows pre-installed and
no discs.
Another tip out there was to hold down both SHIFT keys - I did this and it
did nothing. That FilterKey item is still there in the tray bottom right.
PLEASE can someone help. It's highly frustrating since I cannot - for
example - type any word with the same letter appearing twice. Like "letter".
Or "appearing". Arrrggghhhhhh

Since it's a laptop, maybe the blue Fn key was depressed with another
key to activate this mode. Look for a key with blue text that will
disable the "feature".

Look through the laptop's manual for help on the subject.