Book rested on keyboard and activated something

[Linda]

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I was reading how to do something and the book rested on
the keyboard. I saw a message come up and it said I
activated something. Now, when I try and do something and
go to hit one thing in a file, it highlights everything.
I go to start, accessories and hit system restore and the
original "all programs" page doesn't go away. I hit the x
in the right hand corner and it goes away. When I try to
use system restore, it won't work. What did I activate
and how do I get rid of it? I restarted the computer but
that didn't help.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Open the control panel and look at the keyboard properties,
to see what key has been remapped, also look at the device
manager. Check all programs/accessories/ accessibility to
see if you activated some selection tool. Also check mouse
properties.

BTW, something can be anything, messages should be read.
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question.


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"Linda" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1c9001c48caa$b811cdc0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
|I was reading how to do something and the book rested on
| the keyboard. I saw a message come up and it said I
| activated something. Now, when I try and do something and
| go to hit one thing in a file, it highlights everything.
| I go to start, accessories and hit system restore and the
| original "all programs" page doesn't go away. I hit the x
| in the right hand corner and it goes away. When I try to
| use system restore, it won't work. What did I activate
| and how do I get rid of it? I restarted the computer but
| that didn't help.