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Old March 17th 19, 06:46 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default keyboard funny - loss of ")" character

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| It showed exactly the same keypresses for "(" (shift-9) as for ")"
| (shift-0), other than of course one had the 9 key and one the 0 key.
| But I did notice that all the time it showed left Ctrl as pressed.
| Weird thing is that actually tapping left ctrl had an effect (for

I wonder about the possibility of a loose connection in
the Ctrl key. That could do what you describe. Ctrl sends
a shift value of 2 while Shift sends 1. Ctrl seems to
generally override Shift. Maybe that makes sense. If I keep
Ctrl down in Notepad I can't type at all. So the typical
functionality seems to be something like:

If Ctrl key then
Check for hotkey and quit
Otherwise
Check for Shift
Enter character
Quit


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