Ok... I am stumped....

I have Win XP with all the latest patches and ensured that I don't have any spyware (I run a combination of S&D, AdAware, MS Anti-Spyware) and no virii (Up-to-date version of Norton 2006) and since last night I have the weirdest issue I have come across in 15+ yrs of computing... I cannot get the keystroke combination of Shift and M to work. Note I can hit Caps Lock and then hit m and I get M just fine. I cannot think of any program that would be monopolizing that keystroke.

Any Ideas?

P.S. Thinking hardware, have tried replacing keyboards... No go. When I use RDP, the problem exists on the remote client that I am connecting from so it's definitely a software issue

Thanks,

Brian

Just wanted to add a twist to the problem. I just did a reverse RDP from the desktop to the laptop and when I am in the RDP session, shift m works fine within the RDP session but as soon as I minimize it, no longer works.

Have you installed any hardware recently? What you could do it, go to the desktop, start up the Windows Task Manager, click back on the desktop and hit that sequence and see if any programs start up. Or, alternatively, look at every process running and if any one seems odd. If it does, google it and see if it's either a normal process or something else.

Answer #1 - No I haven't installed any new hardware

Answer #2 - Just did a search for all processes and googled them all and all came up correct and valid.

The next thing I am going to do is boot into safe mode and see if the prob occurs in safe mode. If that works then I guess msconfig is the next step and step by step adding processes until the problem occurs... ALLRIGHTY long night ahead for me

B

Or you can just reinstall Windows .

Hmmmm let me think about that .... Not yet... a little bit drastic but it's not too far from the top of my mind... I want to exhaust all other solutions first

Actually, XP lets you reinstall the OS without deleting your files. The only drawback is that you'd have these extra folders. Also, you'd have to make a new acc't because your old one was deleted. It's still there with all the files, but anyway...

u say it works via rdp so it must be working at some level. this might sound obvious but have you tried both shift keys? or just a different keyboard?

thanks

Wanted to let everyone know that the issue is fixed. Somehow in Skype, a hotkey had gotten assigned and enabled. Once I disabled that hotkey, issue disappeared !!!

Thanks for everyone's suggestions. Thankful I didn't have to do a reinstall of Windows

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