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Rob Parker
I'm not sure where this problem is originating - operating system (Windows
Vista SP1), hardware/drivers (Dell Inspiron 1525), or something else I've
got installed. But hopefully someone here can help ;-) I've searched
Google, Google Groups, Microsoft Support, etc with no luck.
I've been using Ctrl+Insert, Shift+Delete, and Shift+Insert as my standard
shortcut keys, for copy, cut and paste, for many years, on all sorts of
hardware and under every version of Windows to date (except perhaps Windows
3 - if anybody can remember that far back). I now find, on the system
described above, that both the Shift+Delete and Shift+Insert shortcuts, in
addition to cut and paste, also mute the speakers. This happens regardless
of the application I am using the shortcut in, and is an absolute PITA. The
problem may in fact be caused by the Shift key itself (the right-hand one is
the one I noticed it on), rather than the combination, since my practice is
to press the shift-key first, then the other key for the combination. And
it seems that it doesn't always happen, just mostly (I assume it gets reset
on reboot), although that may be a perception thing, rather than actuality;
and there's some other keystroke combination that un-mutes, since
occassionally it turns back on without me having to go via the Volume Mixer
icon in the system tray. Also, sometimes (not always), a small window
appears briefly showing the speakers with a cross (or tick) and a horizontal
bar showing the current volume setting; this window disappears in a second
or two.
Anybody know what's doing this, and how I can stop it. Learning a different
set of shortcut keys is not, for me, an acceptable answer ;-)
TIA,
Rob
Vista SP1), hardware/drivers (Dell Inspiron 1525), or something else I've
got installed. But hopefully someone here can help ;-) I've searched
Google, Google Groups, Microsoft Support, etc with no luck.
I've been using Ctrl+Insert, Shift+Delete, and Shift+Insert as my standard
shortcut keys, for copy, cut and paste, for many years, on all sorts of
hardware and under every version of Windows to date (except perhaps Windows
3 - if anybody can remember that far back). I now find, on the system
described above, that both the Shift+Delete and Shift+Insert shortcuts, in
addition to cut and paste, also mute the speakers. This happens regardless
of the application I am using the shortcut in, and is an absolute PITA. The
problem may in fact be caused by the Shift key itself (the right-hand one is
the one I noticed it on), rather than the combination, since my practice is
to press the shift-key first, then the other key for the combination. And
it seems that it doesn't always happen, just mostly (I assume it gets reset
on reboot), although that may be a perception thing, rather than actuality;
and there's some other keystroke combination that un-mutes, since
occassionally it turns back on without me having to go via the Volume Mixer
icon in the system tray. Also, sometimes (not always), a small window
appears briefly showing the speakers with a cross (or tick) and a horizontal
bar showing the current volume setting; this window disappears in a second
or two.
Anybody know what's doing this, and how I can stop it. Learning a different
set of shortcut keys is not, for me, an acceptable answer ;-)
TIA,
Rob