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micky
Not sure if this is hardware or software, Posted to alt.comp.hardware
and microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Right now the problem is not bothering me, but I wanted to tell you
all about it. Both because I'm curious and I expect the problem will
be back.
I have a Micorsoft multimedia keyboard. Dob't know the model.
Details about the keyboard at the bottom** I'm runing WinXP-Pro-SP3
on a Dell something.
I've been using it four years or more, and it might have been used, or
new old stock when I got it, and in the last 6 months Cntl-V stopped
working often. Yet I never had any trouble with plain V or with any
other Cntl combination. Isn't that weird in itself?
Cntl-C for example, would copy in text, but it was the text
I saved the previous time I used Cntl- V
Does Cntl-V use the V key switch in a different way from plain V? I
wouoldn't think so but this electronics stuff often ends up being
amazingly complicated.
Second weirdness: II only noticed this when copying a url from the
location bar at the top of a firefox page, and maybe from the body of
the page. When I copied text from within Agent (the newsreader) or
Eudora or a text editor, I don't remember ever having trouble. Isn't
that weird?
When I would have trouble, I would go back to the webpage and do
Cntl-V three or four times in a row, and almost always when I did
cntl-C after that, it had the right text and copied it in. I figured
the V key was wearing out, but wondered why V itself always worked.
Then I thought I was overwhelmed with open tabs in Firefox, so I
started keeping my own list of the ones that mattered, and closing
them. Over 4 days I got down from maybe 200 to about 40. On about
the 4th day of my doing this, Firefox came out with Version 12. All
of a sudden response time from the browswer was much faster, and
Cntl-V stopped giving me problems. Isn't that weird?
I tried Internet Explorer a little bit and it was much faster too, so
it probably wasn't the FF version.
So once in a great while now, Cntl-V doesn't work, like once in the
last two weeks, but for months it gave me trouble every day.
The computer has been in the basement since last August, and it's
still there. . If I can trust a 10 dolllar thermometer/hygrometer, the
humidity has been 60 to 75 percent. Other than that, the basement is
quite dry. Water spilled on the floor evaporates or soaks into the
cement quickly. No mold. I think the humidity has been in this
range all year. but I'll admit when the humidity was low outside, the
hygrometer was in the kitchen, not the basement.
Thought you'd like this story, and thanks for any help.
**I don't know if it matters but for the record, the model number is
no longer visible but I'm been using it for 3 or 4 years and I bought
it at a hamfest. It looked new, but maybe the user washed his hands
more than I do. It's computer cream colored and has 16 buttons
across the top and 3 more above the numeric pad.
and microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Right now the problem is not bothering me, but I wanted to tell you
all about it. Both because I'm curious and I expect the problem will
be back.
I have a Micorsoft multimedia keyboard. Dob't know the model.
Details about the keyboard at the bottom** I'm runing WinXP-Pro-SP3
on a Dell something.
I've been using it four years or more, and it might have been used, or
new old stock when I got it, and in the last 6 months Cntl-V stopped
working often. Yet I never had any trouble with plain V or with any
other Cntl combination. Isn't that weird in itself?
Cntl-C for example, would copy in text, but it was the text
I saved the previous time I used Cntl- V
Does Cntl-V use the V key switch in a different way from plain V? I
wouoldn't think so but this electronics stuff often ends up being
amazingly complicated.
Second weirdness: II only noticed this when copying a url from the
location bar at the top of a firefox page, and maybe from the body of
the page. When I copied text from within Agent (the newsreader) or
Eudora or a text editor, I don't remember ever having trouble. Isn't
that weird?
When I would have trouble, I would go back to the webpage and do
Cntl-V three or four times in a row, and almost always when I did
cntl-C after that, it had the right text and copied it in. I figured
the V key was wearing out, but wondered why V itself always worked.
Then I thought I was overwhelmed with open tabs in Firefox, so I
started keeping my own list of the ones that mattered, and closing
them. Over 4 days I got down from maybe 200 to about 40. On about
the 4th day of my doing this, Firefox came out with Version 12. All
of a sudden response time from the browswer was much faster, and
Cntl-V stopped giving me problems. Isn't that weird?
I tried Internet Explorer a little bit and it was much faster too, so
it probably wasn't the FF version.
So once in a great while now, Cntl-V doesn't work, like once in the
last two weeks, but for months it gave me trouble every day.
The computer has been in the basement since last August, and it's
still there. . If I can trust a 10 dolllar thermometer/hygrometer, the
humidity has been 60 to 75 percent. Other than that, the basement is
quite dry. Water spilled on the floor evaporates or soaks into the
cement quickly. No mold. I think the humidity has been in this
range all year. but I'll admit when the humidity was low outside, the
hygrometer was in the kitchen, not the basement.
Thought you'd like this story, and thanks for any help.
**I don't know if it matters but for the record, the model number is
no longer visible but I'm been using it for 3 or 4 years and I bought
it at a hamfest. It looked new, but maybe the user washed his hands
more than I do. It's computer cream colored and has 16 buttons
across the top and 3 more above the numeric pad.