One key not working...

[Makbawehuh]

My key that starts words like "*iguratively", "*ormative", and "*ort" is
bringing up a "*ind computers" box, which brings up a second box that says
"The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable". I
accidentally le*t my laptop open and my cat walked across it- Any ideas on
how to *ix this?

 

[Not Me]

Check the keyboard mapping, it almost seems someone activated that key as a
'hotkey'.
I don't remember where the hotkeys are listed in Vista, but I'm sure someone
can point the way.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Check in the Ease of Access Center control panel icon for the keyboard
options, look for the Sticky Keys option - if on, turn off. Sounds like the
ALT key is stuck for some reason and that would be the first thing I'd
check.

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[Martin]

My key that starts words like "*iguratively", "*ormative", and "*ort" is
bringing up a "*ind computers" box, which brings up a second box that says
"The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable". I
accidentally le*t my laptop open and my cat walked across it- Any ideas on
how to *ix this

Set up the laptop to periodically play a very high pitched sound that only
cats can hear. Hopefully the cat will find this unpleasant and will go and
sh*t in your neighbour's garden instead of doing the hokey kokey on your
laptop.

 

[Makbawehuh]

Thank you very much. I checked my ease of access panel, and yes, sticky keys
were turned on. I shut them off and rebooted, and all was well. My laptop is
going to stay shut when I'm not in the house, now, and I'm going to sit down
with both of my cats and have a serious talk about the things they do when
I'm not looking.


Thank you all very much, again.

~Makbawehuh

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Both wise ideas. I'm glad I was able to help.

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