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I've solved the problems now.
Solution: Defective USB to PS/2 adapter.
<Husky> skrev i melding news:i6gqu0l8cuqv48i9j2f9g9r84lppfaevqr@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:53:11 -0800, "ivar"
> <ivar@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I have another problem also, and it is so similar that I think it has the
>>same cause:
>>When I mark a text area in my editor using shift + an arrow-key and I
>>release the arrow-key (to stop and think again ...) and then press an
>>arrow-key, I expect the marked area to be changed. But what actually
>>happens
>>is that the marking of the marked area disappears and the cursor moves as
>>if
>>the shift key had not been pressed at all, i.e. no new marking happens.
>>
>>The best solution to this problem that I have found is to release the
>>shift
>>key with the arrow key and pressing shift + an arrow-key again when I want
>>to
>>change the marked area. This works, but it wasn't like that on my win95
>>computer...
>
> Sounds like the problem I had with XP and accessibility when I 1st got XP.
> Holding the shift key down 8 seconds, turned on accessibility. but I had
> no
> notice of what caused it other than everything went south.
>
> This is the reply I got and my original message about a mouse with a mind
> of
> it's own.
> fix is in the 1st line below.
> You'll probably need to fiddle with it awhile same as I did cause the fix
> didn't take immediately, there was no help at all other than the point to
> the
> accessibility setup section.
>
>> Accessibility : If it was more than 5 secs look in accessability in
>> Control Panel.
>> Accessibility :--
>> Accessibility :----------------------------------------------------------
>> Accessibility :'Not happy John! Defending our democracy',
>> Accessibility
>> :http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/29/1088392635123.html
>> Accessibility :
>> Accessibility :"Husky" <cbminfo@toast.net> wrote in message
>> news:ujp4g0p1gu4qrsooosuqslqs8198t1in1q@4ax.com...
>> Accessibility :> AND NOW IT WOULD SEEM THE KEYBOARDS FALLEN RIGHT IN WITH
>> IT> Don't tell me I'm
>> Accessibility :> shouting, this is the 'will of it's own' I haven't
>> changed a thing, but it
>> Accessibility :> would seem the keyboard and the mouse have, since the
>> caps are changing things.
>> Accessibility :>
>> Accessibility :> Basically what the original problem was, and where I
>> think the source may have
>> Accessibility :> begun, I was reading something, had my finger on the
>> shift key for an extended
>> Accessibility :> time. needs to be there more than 8 seconds, suddenly a
>> popup popped up asking
>> Accessibility :> if I wanted to keep some sort of keys enabled. options
>> were ok, cancel, and
>> Accessibility :> settings. 1st time I said cancel. I had no desire for
>> the machine to do my
>> Accessibility :> thinking for me. went to settings the 2nd time to see
>> what had changed. It took
>> Accessibility :> me to accessibility options. And nothing was selected.
>> Accessibility :>
>> Accessibility :> I think things have fixed themselves. But I'd like to
>> know what I can do to get
>> Accessibility :> it to fix itself. This is the 2nd time I've seen this
>> activity. Can't recall
>> Accessibility :> what fixed it last time. Posting a ng post isn't
>> something I'd consider a valid
>> Accessibility :> fix for a problem.
>> Accessibility :>
>> Accessibility :> XP help throws up their hands with 'reboot the machine'
>> then come back here to
>> Accessibility :> the troubleshooter.
>> Accessibility :>
>> Accessibility :> I'm guessing yeah that's how I fix the majority of the
>> problems. There has to
>> Accessibility :> be a simpler faster way than pampering this thing every
>> time it goes haywire.
>> Accessibility :>
>> Accessibility :> Ok symptoms. here in the NG the mouse wheel switched
>> from scrolling up and down
>> Accessibility :> the page, to switching windows like using the tab key.
>> Accessibility :> selecting a message to read, highlighted everything from
>> the top of the page to
>> Accessibility :> where you drop the mouse.
>> Accessibility :> the caps at the beginning of this message occurred with
>> the caps lock key
>> Accessibility :> turned off.
>> Accessibility :>
>> Accessibility :> Things now seem to be working the '>' key looks like
>> where things switched.
>> Accessibility :>
>> Accessibility :> How do I fix this problem next time without going thru
>> the worthless
>> Accessibility :> troubleshooter or posting to a NG ?
>> Accessibility :>
>> Accessibility :> more pix @
http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html
>
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