I know, i know.. I can already hear all you linux geeks sneering away to glory!
What is the weird behavior you ask? Well, sometimes when I have many Firefox tabs open (>15) for a long time (through multiple hibernations), the keyboard starts acting up. I click on some links, and instead of opening it in a new tab, it starts downloading them! Typing 'b' behaves like ctrl/alt+b.
Happens sometimes with Notepad too. ctrl+c, ctrl+v does not work.
I did discover an awesome solution though! Press the 'Shift' key more than 5 times and you get the Sticky-keys window like this:
Clicking 'Cancel' makes the keyboard normal again!!! :-D And it works every time!!!
My work makes me take loads of snapshots as it involves a 3rd party GUI. Guess it shows huh?!?!
6 comments:
weiredo windows ... war wins with linux :-P ....
How come a tech entry from you :-)
@sudks: yeah, published it to save other frustrated souls from reloading/rebooting their applications/systems :-D
and no.. don't pull me into linux vs windows discussion :-)
:) First tech post ! cool!
@sandhya: :-) yeah!
Will... You are now doing QA work for Microsoft too...well good that you are getting familiarized with it :)
@sundeep: unofficial QA! and its better if i get familiarized with it :-) saves a lot of time and effort when working with XP.
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