Help! My Shift key is stuck!

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try blowing it out with compressed air

Try another keyboard - it sounds like yours might well have been broken.

hEY LEO IT"S ME AGAIN> I CLEANED MY KEYBOARD WITH COMPRESSED AIR AND THEN GOT A HOOKED UP ANOTHER KEYBOARD AND THE PROBLEM PERSISTS> DOES THIS MEAN MY ORIGINAL KEYBAORD IS BROKEN OR IS IT SOMETHING MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT?

TrOY PARFITT

If the problem happens with the replacement keyboard, then no, I would not suspect the keyboard as the problem. Unfortunately in your case, if the steps in the article didn't help I'm stumped.

I had this problem too. I think I might have had something stuck in my keyboard that originally turned on the sticky keys. I cleaned the keyboard with compressed air but still couldn't get it to stop acting as if the Shift Key was pressed. I unchecked all the boxes in the accessability options in control panel...still no help, UNTIL I followed the suggestion to try an external keyboard! For some reason, after I connected the external, the problem "fixed itself" and now my notebook keyboard is also working correctly...go figure!

Ok So I Had This Problem,
Lmao It Was Driving Me Crazy..

When Ure Computer Acts Like Shift Key Is Held In All The Time..

ive Found No Other Way But This one.. And Trust ME Its A Hard Way Around It.
Simply Un Prlug Ure Keyboard.. Then Plug It Back In..
Lol Sorted Not hard At All.. :)
hope I Could Be Of Help.

Found another blog that said to press both shift keys at the same time. This worked for me.

It is frustrating that XP has been out for 5 years and MS still can't fix the "Cancel" button on filterKeys to work correctly.

my S key is stuck for some reasons. it's not stuck because it has dirt or something..it just goes sssssss when you are not doing anything on the keyboard. it irritates the hell out of me because it'll start highlighting whatever that begins with S on my desktop and the desktop icons go crazssysss snow sit' cosming agsains. si it a virus? pls help!

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I'm not sure why everyone immediately assumes a virus when individual
keys start acting up like that.

MUCH more likely is that your keyboard is broken, has a loose connection
within it, or - even though you can't see it - some dirt. Try another
keyboard. (If on a laptop, plug in an external keyboard and see if it
works any better.)

Leo
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or hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift

System - HP dv1000 - XP
Probelm -

Had stuck shift problem for a while -> tried everything Leo's article suggested along with comments from others -> no result -> added an external keyboard and tried pressing duble shift -> it worked -> for the time being....

Now everytime I press any of the four key to the right of left shift key (zxcv) or left of right shift key (m,./) or space the stuck shift gets activated again on my laptop .... I tried this with an external keyboard but there is not problem with that.

Has anyone experienced such a thing? I have some testing background so I captured some of these scenarios as well -
1. The pressing of two shift keys does not activate the left shift on my laptop (external KB is fine)
2. If I have pressed any of these keys (zxcvm,./) or space the above mentioned solutions will not work... I have to press some other key first in order to use external KB
3. You can also use onscreen keyboard to get rid of this ... press any key other than mentioned above and deselect on onscreen KB (again this wont work otherwise)

Also realized than you can use

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