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- From: HARPER@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Scott Harper)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: RE: Stuck keys in OS/2
- Date: 28 Aug 1992 13:57:39 -0500
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- On 28 Aug 92 16:12:09 GMT,
- baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) said:
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- >
- [...]
- >Does anyone else have a "stuck" key problem in OS/2? I've seen this happen
- >in PM, OS/2 full screen, DOS full screen and various apps. The system
- >suddenly behaves as if one or more of Alt, Shift and/or Ctrl are being held
- >down. The keyboard is not sticking physically, and I am certainly not holding
- >these keys down at the time.
- >
-
- I seem to be having the same problem on my Gateway 2000 486/33c. The Alt
- key occassionally ends up stuck. I can 'unstick' it by tapping the key,
- but that first suprise Alt command can be rather annoying.
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