Help! My Shift key is stuck!

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Thanks this really helped. It was my cat that started the whole thing! he decided to lie on top of the laptop because it was warm ;)

Just press the Left Shift key for about 8 seconds!

Yes, it seems to be a cat thing! Mine shifted backward onto Right Shift key in a moment of indecision in transition from counter to my lap and suddenly I was lost in cyberspace. Restarting the computer worked but knowing the Left Shift cancel trick will outsmart her and be much faster next time. Thanks!

none of these solutions worked for me,i'm using vista and a few days ago my shift keys stopped working, i had to open msn messenger and copy and paste my email address here, its very frustrating, please help me, i tried to change from vista back to xp but apparently you can't do that, i'm having nothing but trouble with vista.

not sure what do to now. My shift key appears to be "on" when i try to type numbers or symbols, but off for letters. I am using XP with SP3.

fraser, my bet is that you have both the shift key locked (with either sticky keys or some other way mentioned on this site) AND caps lock on... Caps lock and shift would cause the letters to be lower case (they cancel each other out), but shift would cause the numbers to be the corresponding symbols.

I have a PC with windows XP but my problem is that somehow my shift key combination of Shift +2 or +3 have now different signs. It now shows double quotes and the pound sign respectively. There are other combination errors too. And I don't know how to correct them to the default settings. Tried everything. Help. On screen keyboard through accessibility option, too, shows the erratic key combination

To unlock Shift Key : First verify that Control Panel Accessibilities to Sticky keys and the like are turned off. Second press and hold down left shift key. DONE

Same thing happened to me when I accidently held my shift key too long. Difficult to navigate w/some keyboard features inop & w/"sticky keys" & "filter keys" enabled. I wound up using "system restore" to an earlier restore point by navigating w/a partial mouse and lt/rt/up/dn keys. It worked.

i have a Toshiba Laptop ,& my capS lock is stuck ....... i always have to push ShifT to make them litte again .... its anoyying & Sometimes my backSpace doesnt work . Can SOmeone HELp me!!!??? >:( ,im 13 o_O

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