Keyboard mess up after shift key held too lon [Solved/Closed]

I found that if you hold down both left and right shift key at the same time (did this for several seconds), it somehow solved the problem. Hopefully that fixed the issue. Also, go to control panel, click on accessibility options..in the keyboard tab, click on the settings buttons for sticky keys, filter keys and toggle keys and deselect the option to use shortcut..hopefully this will help you and other people that have had this problem.

Hold down both "Shift" keys at once, and hold "Alt" down at the same time....that's switching it back and forth between European and American keyboard. The way I can tell which mode my keyboard is in is the "=" in American it's an equal sign, and in European it's "ì". Another way to tell is the "#" sign. In American it's a number sign, in European it's the British pound sign ("£")..Hope this helps!











--------Gennie

hello,

i dunno what have happen to my keyboard...
i cant use `SHIFT` to type symbols and stuff...
theres something wrong with the shift

This is how to solve the toshiba keyboard problem É for question mark symbols and " for @ signs

hold the left ALT + SHIFT for 10 seconds

http://cyfocus.net

my sony vaio cs had messed up two buttons...z and y. i solved the problem by holding both of shift buttons and CTRL. thanks for all advices on that website!!!

The best advice for me was to hold both Shift keys together, followed by the Alt key. Everything else was useless. A BIG thanks to the person who suggested this. Muah!!!

For windows 7, look up in the search bar "change how your keyboard works" I think it's in vista to I don't remember.. Then turn on sticky keys. I think if you press shift 5 times then it will turn them on or off.

I pressed on fn + numlk and it worked for me, hope this helps.

Thanks. My son messed up with my keyboard and your advice about holding both Shift keys at once worked.

thank you soo much!!!!I had to post. The best advice was to hold down both shift keys at the same time. This was really pissing me off thanks again!!!!

you could type the 2 shifts at the same time. One by one but fast

thank youuu :]
i held down shift to long, and holding them both down worked. :]
i was in the middle of some pretty important work,
so thankss :D

thank you soo much ..... holding both shift keys together solved my problem..... thanks for posting.......

Thank you very much for posting your answer. I am in the middle of a time sensitive document, focused on what I was saying, left my finger on some key to long and BAM my keys gave different results. Google. Got this answer. Did the control menu sequence. Solved. Thanks.

Many thanks, new it was software related when several keyboards behaved the same way (luckily I have spares).

You could press those 2 shift keys and hold. If it doesn't work you could press those 2 keys alternately. For example, 1st press left shift key then right shift key then left then right. Repeat that for 1 minute. That's all

Fantastic - both holding shifts solved the problem. Thanks for posting the answer :).

Fabulous! thanks that works!

Gennie. Thanks very much. That solve the small problem I had. Handy to know

ok this is what happened... gy holding down the shift keys for more than 8 seconds it turns something on. i did this once on accident. you have to hold down both shift keys for a while and then check to see if its fixed. if it doesnt then try holding it down for a longer period of time. mine went within 2 minutes but some ppl waited for like 20 so give it a try.