XP Keyboard problems

[gaskie]

all,

this is annoying me greatly now, when I hit my Windows key (left one) XP decides to give me the shutdown menu asking me if I want to log off, shut down etc etc. This is unbelievably annoying as quite often I hit windows key followed by the left ctrl button and my PC shuts itself down whatever I am doing, even if I am in the middle of a game or some work, whatever. It doesnt save any data, just shuts down.

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but on every PC I have ever used before the windows key brings up the start menu??????

I'd love to know why this is happening, any advice???


Cheers folks,

James.

 

[btvillarin]

Can you retrace your steps as to why this started happening? Has this been a regular occurence ever since you had your computer? Did it happen when you installed a piece of software? Did you install a new piece of hardware when this started happening?

This is definitely odd...

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[Toejam31]

You might be able to change a few things with this program:

<A HREF="http://www.copernic.com/winkey/" target="_new">The Windows Keyboard Enhancer for Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP</A>

It's freeware.

The last time I heard about problems with the WinKey was in Win9x with certain DOS games installed. Hitting the WinKey sometimes caused system lockups in this scenario.

I haven't heard of anything weird like this happening in WinXP. Have you run a virus scan lately?

Toejam31


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