Keyboard is doing some wierd things instead of typing when I hit keys

[blazorthon]

Hi,

I have a Windows 7 machine that has been running without any problems until now. Whenever I hit a key, something besides typing tends to happen.

• Hitting "p" opens up a small, long window that lets me change my monitor setup (options being "Computer only", "Duplicate", "Extend", and "Projector only")
• Hitting "e" opens up the Computer window with explorer.
• Hitting "t" scrolls thru my open programs with the task bar.
• Hitting "d" closes the active program.
• Hitting "r" opens the Run window.
• Hitting "f" opens a file search window.

Any other keys do what they normally do.

I'm worried I accidentally hit some key combination that causes some keyboard shortcuts to always be active because this happens no matter what I'm doing - such as typing in a search bar in Firefox or typing a paper in MS Word. This has happened to me before with other computers but I don't know how it was fixed and I don't know how I would word a Google search to find out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this has royally screwed me over and now I can't use my ~$600 investment which just sucks.

 

[blazorthon]

I almost forgot, hitting the space bar does nothing at all.

 

[Branden]

All of those keys are supposed to do exactly what you describe except when holding the Windows button (usually between left Ctrl and left alt). Is your Windows button stuck?

 

[blazorthon]

Oh god that was helpful. Yeah now it's working again after slamming both windows keys.

 

[blazorthon]

Best answer selected by blazorthon.

 

[nikorr]

+1^Branden,

blazorthonand now u can start using shortcuts too: )

More here,

http://lifehacker.com/5390086/the-master-list-of-new-windows-7-shortcuts

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

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