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XP Professional and the CTRL key
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Windows
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Computing in general
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00882039
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>Apparently since the upgrade the CTRL key is having no effect, so instead of getting, say bolding/unbolding of the word "word" I end up with "bwordb". When I Backspace and do it again it "takes" as desired. I have watched carefully and I can attest that I am hitting the CTRL key squarely, firmly and correctly in every case.
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>Is anyone else suffering from this OR does anyone know of some setting that might be implicated?

Hi Jim - That's an odd one, especially the backspace thing. There was, a while back, a time where CTRL could have problems if the keyboard was set to some non-US countries. You might try setting (or re-setting, if it's already set that way) it to US, though I don't really think that will help (since that was quite long ago). But might as well check it out, since it's easy (Regional/Language area in CP).

Questions come to mind also, that might help get a good reply from someone, if not me:

1) It's just the keyboard, right? IOW, using mouse/menu the features work okay right-off?

2) The menus where problems occur have listed the CTRL key shortcuts as normal?

3) It's in all apps, or just some? I wasn't quite clear on that.

Additional thought: If only specific apps like Word, and only with keyboard, try re-setting the app internally, like to default (maybe the Tools/Customize/Keyboard...area)
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.
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