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On 2/27/19 4:23 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Yes: when this problem manifests itself, I've found plugging in a USB
keyboard makes no difference - or even using the on-screen keyboard!
What's more, the problem/behaviour seems to have come across from my
WindowsÂ*XPÂ*machine!!

Was the old keyboard unplugged when you tested?

In message , T writes:
On 2/27/19 4:23 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Yes: when this problem manifests itself, I've found plugging in a USB
keyboard makes no difference - or even using the on-screen keyboard!
What's more, the problem/behaviour seems to have come across from my
Windows*XP*machine!!

Was the old keyboard unplugged when you tested?

Both machines were/are laptops! (Well, the XP was a netbook.)
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Never. For me, there has to be a meaning. There's not much meaning in eating
bugs. - Darcey Bussell (on whether she'd appear on /I'm a Celebrity/), in RT
2015/11/28-12/4

On 3/1/19 11:29 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , T writes:
On 2/27/19 4:23 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Yes: when this problem manifests itself, I've found plugging in a USB
keyboard makes no difference - or even using the on-screen keyboard!
What's more, the problem/behaviour seems to have come across from my
WindowsÂ*XPÂ*machine!!

Was the old keyboard unplugged when you tested?

Both machines were/are laptops! (Well, the XP was a netbook.)
[]

Try with a Live USB/CD/DVD. That will isolate software from hardware

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/

It can be cut with dd to a flash drive

In message , T writes:
On 3/1/19 11:29 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , T writes:
On 2/27/19 4:23 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Yes: when this problem manifests itself, I've found plugging in a
USB keyboard makes no difference - or even using the on-screen
keyboard! What's more, the problem/behaviour seems to have come
across from my Windows*XP*machine!!

Was the old keyboard unplugged when you tested?

Both machines were/are laptops! (Well, the XP was a netbook.)
[]

Try with a Live USB/CD/DVD. That will isolate software from hardware

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/

It can be cut with dd to a flash drive

I'm pretty sure it's not hardware - I can't think how _any_ hardware
fault would still manifest itself when I try to use the on-screen
"keyboard" (that you operate with the mouse).

Trying a Linux bootable wouldn't I don't think work - my problem only, I
think, manifests itself when I've been using the combination of Windows
softwares I normally use, for a while. And I think it's something I do
that triggers it - _something_ I think related to use of the Ctrl key,
but I'm not completely sure of that, and certainly don't know what. And
I don't know what makes it clear itself either, but again I think it's
an action or combination of actions I take.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Science fiction is escape into reality - Arthur C Clarke

On 3/1/19 3:15 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's not hardware - I can't think how _any_ hardware
fault would still manifest itself when I try to use the on-screen
"keyboard" (that you operate with the mouse).

Neither can I, but..

Trying a Linux bootable wouldn't I don't think work - my problem only, I
think, manifests itself when I've been using the combination of Windows
softwares I normally use, for a while. And I think it's something I do
that triggers it - _something_ I think related to use of the Ctrl key,
but I'm not completely sure of that, and certainly don't know what. And
I don't know what makes it clear itself either, but again I think it's
an action or combination of actions I take.

I would check anyway. I live for a cause effect problem. Most
of what I get called for has A affecting B affecting A. It
can take some multilevel thinking. The easy ones they fix
themselves. The hard ones, lets torture Todd! I can't help
it, I enjoy the puzzles. Its a living.

The worst one I fixed was A affecting B affecting C affecting D
affecting E affecting A. It took me two hours but I finally
conquered. They problem with these multilevel problems is
that I keep forgetting who did what to whom

If the Live USB shows it was software and you already knew
that, then you have a cool troubleshoot tool for use the
next time. I carry about eight of them for various things
around with me, alone with two Windows 10 PE flash drives.
Yes, some are labeled Window Nein.

In message , T writes:
On 3/1/19 3:15 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's not hardware - I can't think how _any_ hardware
fault would still manifest itself when I try to use the on-screen
"keyboard" (that you operate with the mouse).

Neither can I, but..

Trying a Linux bootable wouldn't I don't think work - my problem
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I would check anyway. I live for a cause effect problem. Most
of what I get called for has A affecting B affecting A. It
can take some multilevel thinking. The easy ones they fix
themselves. The hard ones, lets torture Todd! I can't help
it, I enjoy the puzzles. Its a living.

The worst one I fixed was A affecting B affecting C affecting D
affecting E affecting A. It took me two hours but I finally
conquered. They problem with these multilevel problems is
that I keep forgetting who did what to whom

If the Live USB shows it was software and you already knew
that, then you have a cool troubleshoot tool for use the

Except it _wouldn't_, I think, show it was softwa at best, it would
show it isn't hardware, which I'm not convinced is the same thing. But
I'd have to be using my software combination, which would be difficult
under Linux - I think at least one of them (Turnpike) wouldn't work in
WINE. I have to be using them and actively using the keyboard for the
problem to show itself; I can (and do) leave the machine on overnight,
with my usual combination of prog.s loaded, and I don't think I've ever
come to the machine in the morning and found the problem present.

next time. I carry about eight of them for various things
around with me, alone with two Windows 10 PE flash drives.
Yes, some are labeled Window Nein.

(I have no intention of using Windows 10 either, but I don't think I'd
label anything Nein: I smiled the first two or three times I saw it, but
I think by now I'd be thoroughly fed up of having to explain int.)


--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

.... basically it's another language and unless you've studied it, it's
difficult to grasp. I know people get outraged at me saying it, but it's only
my opinion. I'm not telling people who adore Shakespeare to stop adoring it
this minute. - Jane Horrocks, in Radio Times 30 July - 5 August 2011