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Control keys not working on laptop [Solved/Closed]

dora - Latest answer on Jan 3, 2013 12:34PM

Hello,
I have windows vista home premium as OS in laptop and recently control keys have stopped working all of a sudden. Both the keys are not working. I removed the sticky keys....shortcut keys....but nothing is working...please help...
thanks
dora

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Pudgey Dec 24, 2009 09:05AM

press alt+ctrl+fn
fixed!

IzzyKat - Jan 18, 2010 12:47PM

you ROCK! :)

jkl - Feb 2, 2010 09:19PM

that doesnt work.....

novembergirl - Feb 4, 2010 07:48AM

thank thank thank you :******

HappySmiles!!! - Mar 19, 2010 12:26AM

You TOTALLY ROCK. Thanks. My volume is back on - my function keys work. Thanks a mill. God bless you and happy energy over to you! Sweet! :) You made my day!

Thanks - Mar 22, 2010 10:24PM

Yea baby thats the ticket!!

Arebea - Mar 31, 2010 07:07PM

Thanks a bunch, had the same problem!!! <3

Dr. Dildo - Apr 6, 2010 04:59PM

wha? that is ridiculous that that worked. Thanks!

Moots - Apr 16, 2010 04:36PM

Hi, My rotate button when viewing any of my pictures does not function at all. I have tried using a shortcut key (ctrl+r) but still doesnt work then. What do I need to do to have this rotate button clockwise and counter-clockwise working again??

Your Solution would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Brandon - May 1, 2010 10:54AM

hi some of my keys on my vaio laptop isnt working like the underscore and some of the number keys isnt working either any solutions?

Daniel - Jun 12, 2010 09:28PM

What is fn?

Minimall - Jun 16, 2010 10:32AM

What is fn?

bob - Jun 19, 2010 05:23AM

some laptops have it is for second function of some of the buttons, ie f1 wolud be a second function of turn vloume up.

nadi - Jul 1, 2010 03:39AM

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Mondego - Jul 7, 2010 11:44AM

Thanks!

Tonya - Jul 18, 2010 08:54AM

Thank u so much!!

CJO - Jul 19, 2010 07:50PM

Wow you are awesome! I've been googling forever to find out how to make my volume and brightness bars display again, and your answer worked like a charm! Thanks!!

as - Nov 26, 2012 06:49AM

does not work

BillyBrinks - Dec 8, 2012 05:02PM

You saved this man's life.

Hamza - Jan 3, 2013 12:34PM

hahaha...it was such an easy task to do....and we didnt know it

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apnetworking Nov 7, 2009 09:28PM

I just encountered this for the first time. CTRL+C & CTRL+V would not copy and paste. I could see one burning out or something, but both control keys are not working. Tried a reboot and it didn't help.

I have a ps2 mouse and keyboard, both plugged into a USB adapter. Just unplugged the USB adapter and replugged it in and the keys work normal again. Seems odd that resetting the USB connection resolved it and a restart would not have fixed it, but at least it was a simple fix. Hope that helps someone else.

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Surfsock Jul 14, 2010 08:07AM

You may have already assigned these as hotkeys for another program like Skype. You may be experiencing this when both programs are running.

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jgomer2001 Nov 12, 2008 07:05PM

I have the same problem with windows XP (Dell laptop). Suddenly the Ctrl key started to be ignored. Please help me! can't do Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+F4 :(

Regards

januszartur - Jan 9, 2009 03:29AM

I got many problems with ctrl and function till I remove hkcmd.exe from startup using msconfig programm.
START ->> RUN
type msconfig
ENTER
go to fold STARTUP / AUTORUN
uncheck hkcmd
APPLY, CLOSE
Restart.
Should be ok. If not back to the settings you had.

nqhuy.mr - May 17, 2009 04:12PM

My Sony VaiO laptop suddenly hardly to use 3 buttons R, Y and U
It's still work but so slow and have to put 4-5 times.
Sometimes it's disappear when I restore my windows some previous days ago, but happen again after half an hour working.
I dont know why? might be virus or some function conflict together.
I saw in Task Manager a command wscntfy.exe (around 2Mb) when I kill it, the keyboard problem disappear. but it process appear again automatically. I don't know where is process from?
RYU problem really annoy me because I have to access my laptop by password everyday, please help me.
Thanks in advances

could you send your advice via my email: nqhuy.mr@gmail.com

saeed › januszartur - Aug 4, 2009 02:14PM

where is khcmd?,i didnt find an item to unchek,in my start up at msconfig??????

ss - May 22, 2009 02:57PM

I have the same problem as you. control key not working and I have dell XPS M1330. how did you solve the problem?
S

cumburs - Jul 21, 2010 06:15AM

yeehaaa. ? finally found here and read your suggestion and the problem solved. Thank you so much..

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guest Feb 20, 2010 06:35PM

I got this problem in Word, in MS Office 2007 on newly installed Windows 7 (on a new Lenovo X200 laptop). The reason was a keyboard switch with a certain key sequence. See the tiny language icon at the bottom right corner of the screen? It got switched from standard English US keyboard to English multilingual (also had a French keyboard option). I went and removed all English keyboards except US. No more CTRL key problems.

speechlesss_ - Jun 14, 2010 03:04AM

thank u that helpt....strange how that happened though...

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yogesh Jan 13, 2009 03:11AM

i think you have installed windows updates, bacause of these updatessome functions stops working. similar case was there with me. then i restore my system and everything was normal

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zarigor Mar 22, 2010 01:42PM

Ctrlkey on my laptop HP6910 (WinXP) doesn't work from the left side, but it works from the right. In BIOS restored to factory default and it's resolved issue.

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molly Sep 10, 2009 01:38PM

I bought a brand new dell a few weeks ago, and the control key randomly is hot so that when I press t in the internet browser for example it opens a new tab. It is really frustrating especially when it deletes things or exits from things.

Dell sent me a new keyboard, and I switched it and thought all of my problems would go away, but it still does the same thing. I am probably going to send the computer back to dell, but any ideas as to how to fix it?

Molly

Pixie - Jun 30, 2010 09:00PM

My brand new dell studio is that way...but it's a different broken key every day. I have to slam down on the key to make it work, but the others work fine. then another day, it will be a DIFFERENT letter!

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Knaan Jun 17, 2010 03:14AM

I found very easy way to get rid of the side affects, it normally comes in when you have your laptop on for long periods of inactivity, just load back control panel and it should resolve the issue.

Peace

Knaan.

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dora Jan 15, 2009 01:22PM

Hi Everybody,
I have given the laptop to the service centre and they have replaced the keyboard and everything is fine....for desktop it's rather much easy to check with new keyboard.

Thanks
Dora

Col SC Sood (Retd) - Oct 17, 2012 07:50PM

I was using old keyboard. Replacing with a new USB keyboard solved the problem on my AMD FX-4100 Desktop.

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