Help! My Shift key is stuck!

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As I found on in this forum "Pressing both shift keys at the same time will turn off all caps". I didn't have to hold for 5 seconds, just press both at the same time. I also noticed the problem only occurs if you're in the middle of typing a document or email and you hold the shift key for 8 seconds. Thanks for the advice Leslie.

when i hit shift "N" my key board types "NB" automatically....

it only happens with my left shift key and not the right one....i have looked at sticky key function with no luck...please HELP...thanks

Sounds like a bad keyboard. Try borrowing another to confirm.

Shift Key Problem Resolved

I had I weird problem with my keyboard. It happened after I had that Filterred Shift Key window from windows XP coming up because I was pressing since a while the shift key button. Since I was thinking about something else, I am not quite sure what I have done. I just wanted this window who just came-up to get out my sight. But after that, I coudn't help myself but think about this pop-up window; all the letters were writing fine when I was using them, they were all normal except the special keys such as @ ~ { }. It was like I was holding the shift key all the time for those. When I was clicking on an Icone on the Desktop, Windows was selecting all the icones. If I was opening a icone, Windows was starting all the icones of that window.

To resolve this problem, I went in Control Panel [Press right click to open a window instead of opening as we normally do] -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> Keyboards -> [Select your keyboard],{new window come up} -> Select Driver Tabs -> Update Driver -> Install from a list or specified (Advanced) -> Select your current keyboard. After the installation, Windows reboot, so make sure all your works are saved. After reboot, my keyboard was fine again, and I could finally forget about this pop-up window "Filterred Shift Key" and come to what I was thinking.

Hope this help !!

this xp irritant (well it is irritating for me) always comes up when i happen to be thinking of the right words to say, and my pinky is pressing on the Shift key for more than 8 seconds. The stupid Filter Key menu comes up.
No matter what you check or uncheck in the stupid thing, my caps lock becomes reversed. The only way to get my keyboard working normally again is by restarting my computer. Good thing Ms didn't create a "memory" for this utility or else even a restart won't help. But it has interrupted my work and that is a big time irritant. Why not put the default button somewhere else, like the useless Pause/Break key? Duh...

A few days ago my shift keys would mysteriously stop working for hours at a time, which wouldn't let me type characters like the question mark, exclamation mark, and percent sign. Now, they won't work at all... I have to press the caps button to even get capital letters. It's been really irritating, because I NEED those characters. I have no idea why the shift keys won't work, but it's a laptop keyboard.

It does sound like a hardware problem. You might try plugging in an external keyboard for a while and see if the problem is there as well.

Ashley!!! Yo the man!!! I followed your proposed solution and it worked!!! I'm just hoping that it would never come back! I'm still open to the possibility of a virus infection. I'll be observing my laptop and do some research about this. I'll let you guys know if ever i found out something ! Ciao!

Sadly after 10 minutes it came back. So I researched more and found this.

http://magicsynthesis.com/download/disablestupidkeys.reg

Its a registry editor file to totally remove the stickykey option from your machine. hope this solves it. I guess I just have a bad keyboard or something that's why it is activting itself every now and then. I'll keep you guys posted.

this isnt working, my shift key will not work anywhere.. i tried re installing it but im stuck with the same problems, i turned off all sticky key stuff but nothing works.. help1

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