Help! My Shift key is stuck!

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To turn off the toggle keys (or whichever one you can turn on by accidentally holding down the right shif key too long) just press both shift keys simultaneously.

hi, i just installed firefox 3.5 and it messed up my shift key. now it doesnt work at all when i want to toggle between the numbers and special characters. the only way i can get the special characters out is when i press both shift key and then shift the key character i want to get the upper chacters to show. can u advice how can i get my original keyboard setting back/ am using windows xp with sp3, logitech cordless keyboard. i swear my hardware is perfectly fine until ff 3.5 completed its installation and even after i uninstall and deleted all related folder in regedit, my keyboard problem remains.. hope u can help me. thanks1

I have a Dell w/ Windows XP. I cannot type numbers. It's as though the shift key is held down. It types lower case letters when the CAPS LOCK is on, and vice versa. I've tried rebooting, I've unchecked all the boxes for sticky keys and toggle keys, and even held down both shift keys (many times...once for 20 minutes!) It still doesn't work and i'm ready to throw the laptop against the wall! It's not like I can replace the keyboard on a laptop! HELP!

To all those still struggling...

Often 'Sticky Keys' is hard to disable, it says it's not on when it quite clearly is. The solution is to press any two alphabetic keys simultaneously - Hey Presto! normal service is resumed :)

Thank you thank you thank you.
I've tried so many things to fix this issue, but yours was finally the answer. Much better than closing everything and restarting my computer everytime this happened. I will try to be nicer to my keboard too!

i turned my computer off before reading this (im on a friends computer) and cant access my own computer because the shift key is stuck and i cannot enter my password correctly (its all numbers)!

HEY WHEN I TYpE HALM OF MY LETTERES GO INto LOweRCASe AND HALF OF THEM GO INTO UPPERCASE BUT If YOU DELETE The LetTER ANd KEEP RETYPING IT IT MiGHT GO LOWER\upPER CASE PLEASE HELP

Sounds like you have a physical problem with your keyboard. Try a different keyboard and see if the problem goes away. (Just plug in a USB keyboard for this test if you have a laptop.)

15-Sep-2009

I need help!!! I read the article but I have no answer for my problema...

I have a DELL inspiron, brand new (bought it 3 months ago) and I have a problem with my keyboard (which came up yesterday)... everytime I hit CAPS LOCK to change between lower and uppercase , I can't continue writing!! It kind of gets blocked, so I have to click in order to continue typing...
HELP PLEASE!!!

i have a sony vaio laptop with windows vista in my laptop now suddenly i notice my shift key has stoped functioning. now yr suggestion of Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Accessibility Options is also not helping as i dont have accessibility options in my control panel kindly help pleaseeee..........

when i press ctrl or shift key it's like it toggles it or something like that and its like im still pressing it when im not actually and it realy anoys me...ive tryed pressing the two shft keys but it doesnt work...please reply to my E-mail and sorry for my english its not very good

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