Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Logitech Wireless Keyboard - Shift key stuck

This morning we encountered a very strange issue with all the Logitech wireless keyboard which is being used in our Windows system, it's the same with Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7, but not in Windows 2003 and Windows 2008.

The shift key is stuck! When we just click some icon on the desktop, it will select a region automatically. And when we just do nothing, sticky key alert will prompt out.

We tried rebooting the PC, change the keyboard batteries, disconnect and reconnect, re-sync between keyboard and the controller, disable USB port and enable again, and it does not help at all. After that, we almost wanted to reinstall the driver and if it's still does not work, we were planning to reformat the PC and install a new one on top of it.

Then we saw a genius comment in one of the troubleshooting website, press any 2 alphabets together in the keyboard to disable this behaviour. We tried it in all the problematic PCs, and the problem is gone!

Who would have thought the solution is so easy. Thanks for the guy who posted it up.

But stuck keys on keyboard is no fun at all. :(

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