WINDOWS 10 KEYBOARD RESET KEYS MIXED UP WINDOWS

Very difficult to reproduce to find a pattern. Sometimes it would let me type 1 letter in caps, but it was random. Then the shift key and ctrl key stopped working randomly. The scroll and click would work for a bit here and there, but I couldn't long click at all and could only scroll down a few lines. Then the mouse left click and scroll started having problems.

WINDOWS 10 KEYBOARD RESET KEYS MIXED UP WINDOWS

I installed Windows 11 on my business computer.

(Please notice how I'm using caps because your 'disable game mode' fixed my shift keys and I can type normally in caps again!) Now it's back to the original 'dirty keys' state. I turned that off, and immediately, the multiple second pause before a key click registered was gone. So I went looking for anyone else with this issue, and came across this post. That made me suspicious that this was not just due to dust under the keys, but rather that something had noticed the repeated clicking, and had turned on some sort of anti-key-bounce setting. If I held one of these keys down for several seconds, it would actuate once, then pause for a second, then begin repeating. I was tempted to (carefully!) use my real vacuum. I got one of those little keyboard vacuums, but they don't have enough suction to pull out compacted dust bunnies, just loose dust. I assumed this was due to dust under the keys, and so fished tiny dust bunnies out with a bit of paper (hoping that was gentle enough not to damage the keys).īut then, these keys stopped responding, except sporadically.įor me, the set of keys affected are: p, semi-colon, dash, equals 0, quote, slash, right bracket. I would sometimes have to click them more than once. Some while after I updated to Windows 11, I started noticing a problem with some keys in one area of the keyboard not responding well to key-clicks.

Here's what happened to me, in case others had something similar happen:

Windows 10 keyboard reset keys mixed up