Help! My Shift key is stuck!

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my D key is stuck in my sony vaio notebook everytym if i wanna use the letter 'd' i hav to copy and paste it.
sometimes without typin the letter the letter'd' keeps goin on and on .............. its frustrating when i browse through the net or using word
HELP ME out guyz...........................

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Sounds like you need to get your keyboard repaired if the key is physically
stuck, but that seems too obvious - what am I missing about your question?

Leo

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For some reason, whenever I type the letter "a" it results in 2-3 "a-s" appearing instead of just 1. Any ideas?

Dirty or broken keyboard?

EDITED...

Hello,

I have a rather annoying problem with my left Shift key. Opposite to most of the posters, my problem is about a "shortcut". My keyboard has these buttons on the Upper Left Corner, from which one of them access my E-Mail Web Site.

Tonight all of a sudden (I don't know if I accidentally pressed a combination of keys or what not) when I press my Left Shift Key, it would now work as if I was pressing that "Take me to my E-Mail Web Site - Button", it works both ways now at the same time:

1. As an upper casing key for letters and symbols: "A,B,C,D... ! @ # $... etc".

2. As my E-Mail Web Site button.

This is rather annoying, because if I'm working on Word, Excel, on Full Screen in a Game or what not, it will minimize EVERYTHING and take me to my E-Mail Web Site.

I tried uninstalling the Keyboard driver and reinstalling it, unplugging it, using a restoring point, turning my computer off, etc. Nothing seems to take my Shift Key back to normal...

Can anyone please tell me how to fix this problem? I know there's another Shift Key on the right side, but I just want to know the root cause of this.

Thanks.

Due too liquid spill ; many different key problems have occured. For example hittin '.' would reslut in this situation : .,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Many other keys are malfunctionning but know my main problem is the page dwn button ... it is really annoying, as if i was always pressing that button. Does annyonne know what I should doo ?

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Replace your keyboard.

Leo

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|I have a problem with my right shift key, everytime |I try to use it letter it drops a line if front of the letter. |I can't figure out how to turn it off, but it interfers terribly with entering passwords and such, can anyone help|?

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That sounds like a keyboard hardware issue. I'd get/try
another one.

Leo

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See if you check check your laptop documentation. I know on my laptop there was a "feature" to turn some of the keys into a number pad that would come on at random and was relatively simple (but not easy to remember) to shut it off. Good luck.

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