I cant take off stickykeys

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Hi guys, Im trying to take off stickykeys but i cannot. i click shift 5 times
and when the window opens and i click settings for it to deactivate nothing
happens. I tried going through the accessability options but there isnt
anything there to do with the keyboard. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
 
Under keyboard tab ( after pressing shift key five times), you unchecked "Use
stickykeys"?

and all other options
 
Adam said:
Hi guys, Im trying to take off stickykeys but i cannot. i click shift 5 times
and when the window opens and i click settings for it to deactivate nothing
happens. I tried going through the accessability options but there isnt
anything there to do with the keyboard.
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Yes there is, you didn't look far enough.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
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Copy the text below and paste into Notepad, save it as nosticky.reg,
double click on it to merge into the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\StickyKeys]
"Flags"="506"



Steve N.
 
Adam said:
Hi guys, Im trying to take off stickykeys but i cannot. i click shift 5 times
and when the window opens and i click settings for it to deactivate nothing
happens. I tried going through the accessability options but there isnt
anything there to do with the keyboard. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi Adam

? "Keyboard" is the first tab in my Accessibility Options, and Sticky
Keys is the first entry on it. However. . .

Pressing the Shift key 5 times brings up a window as you say, asking you
to click Settings if you wish to deactivate Sticky Keys. Click that. You
then get the Keyboard tab I mentioned above. Click the Settings button
on the right; a dialog called Settings for Sticky Keys will come up.
Uncheck the "use shortcut" box and click OK twice.

Hope this helps.
 
I'm not sure if you still need this, but I think I may have an answer.

Last week on a commute home, I laid a book (don't ask why) on the left side
of my Inspiron 6000 laptop's keyboard for 10-20 seconds to look out the
train's window. The next day when I fired it up to use it, every key I
pressed beeped and my system settings (fan on, lighting display) were off. I
tried Dell support; control panel accessibility options; I attempted to build
a diagnostic disk and run it; and even a tip a friend suggested with no
success.

As a last resort before taking it into a repair shop, I attempted a System
Restore (maybe I triggered something). During the restart, I noticed that a
brief statement flashed on screen BEFORE the Windows start up screen. I saw
it before during the day but couldn't make out what it meant.

To make a painfully long story short, I saw that the phrase that briefly
flashed onscreen said PRESS FTN + X TO RESTORE COMPUTER TO NORMAL MODE

I would love to see the documented explanation of what Function + X is, but
when it did it, my machine worked. I think I'll call it the "Smokely
Technique"...

Hope this works...

Smokely
 
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