Please help, driving me daft - window won't change

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Hi

This is driving me up the wall - frequently when I have a few different
windows/apps open along the taskbar, when I click one to switch to it,
Windows doesn't switch to it - it stays on the current window. However the
one I clicked looks to be "pressed in". Alt-Tab is sometimes the only way to
switch windows, but usually the problem goes away after a few minutes, only
to appear again hours later.

I've also noticed that when clicking files in a folder, Windows seems to
sometimes "multi select" them (as if I'm holding in the Shift key and
clicking, even though I'm not).

It also sometimes opens every new Explorer window in a new window, even
though it doesn't usually

I group all the above in 1 post as they have all been happening recently and
only seem to last a little while.

I did also notice last night that double clicking with the left button a
desktop icon was opening up the properties page for that shortcut (as if I'd
right-clicked once and chose Properties). Again this seemed to go away
itself.

I did think at first this only seemed to be happening when I had my Sony PSP
connected via USB, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Thanks
 
Hi. I tried a couple of things. If I hold CTRL while clicking on a app
on the taskbar, the button goes down, but the program doesn't come up.
Similarly CTRL double click on a explorer folder opens it in a new
window. The last one about getting the properties window I could
duplicate by holding alt and double clicking. Either the keys are
physically sticking, or you have enabled "sticky keys" by accident. I
am not making this up! Check windows help for sticky keys. It's a
feature, not a bug.

Len
 
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