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Rob Parker
I'm not sure where this problem is originating - operating system (Windows
Vista SP1), hardware/drivers (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 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 on my system. 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 doesn't always happen, just mostly (although that may be a perceptual
thing); and there's some other keystroke/keystroke combination that can turn
it the speakers back on since that sometimes happens without me needing to
do so manually via the Volume Mixer icon in the system tray. Also,
sometimes a small window pops up with a speaker icon with a cross (or tick)
over it and a horizontal bar showing the current volume setting; this
disappears within a second or two.
Anybody know what's causing this behavious, 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 (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 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 on my system. 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 doesn't always happen, just mostly (although that may be a perceptual
thing); and there's some other keystroke/keystroke combination that can turn
it the speakers back on since that sometimes happens without me needing to
do so manually via the Volume Mixer icon in the system tray. Also,
sometimes a small window pops up with a speaker icon with a cross (or tick)
over it and a horizontal bar showing the current volume setting; this
disappears within a second or two.
Anybody know what's causing this behavious, and how I can stop it. Learning
a different set of shortcut keys is not, for me, an acceptable answer ;-)
TIA,
Rob