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Weird Intermitting Stealing Focus Problem, weird charácters etc

  • 08-04-2009 7:13pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Im usually pretty savy with computers but this one has me stumpéd. All of a sudden i started getting stealing focus issues, so if i go to type or seléct a menu it wont let me, also the Nvidia Menu starts popping up, if i try to type it either does nothing or i get weird characters like the eoiu with the fada mark over it, think there scananavian characters.

    Im beginning to think its like certain keys are stuck yet when i unlug the usb keyboard it still keeps happening. It also starts auto scrolling up and down sometimes, ive tried a system restore, ive took apart the keyboard and cleaned it, ive disabled all non essential programs and i just cant think of anything else, when it dóés happen all i can do is try ctrl+alt+del and sometimes it fixes it sometimes i just have to wait.

    Sounds like a keyboard issue or could it be something else? Going try and get my hands on another keyboard to test just hoping in the meantime if someone came across this issue they might have an Idea.

    Windows Vista (Devil) btw so i cant do the windows repair


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭francosp


    dvdfan wrote: »
    Hi,

    Im usually pretty savy with computers but this one has me stumpéd. All of a sudden i started getting stealing focus issues, so if i go to type or seléct a menu it wont let me, also the Nvidia Menu starts popping up, if i try to type it either does nothing or i get weird characters like the eoiu with the fada mark over it, think there scananavian characters.

    Im beginning to think its like certain keys are stuck yet when i unlug the usb keyboard it still keeps happening. It also starts auto scrolling up and down sometimes, ive tried a system restore, ive took apart the keyboard and cleaned it, ive disabled all non essential programs and i just cant think of anything else, when it dóés happen all i can do is try ctrl+alt+del and sometimes it fixes it sometimes i just have to wait.

    Sounds like a keyboard issue or could it be something else? Going try and get my hands on another keyboard to test just hoping in the meantime if someone came across this issue they might have an Idea.

    Windows Vista (Devil) btw so i cant do the windows repair

    What is your keyboard layout set to ?

    control panel => Regional Settings & Language Options => Keyboards & Languages


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭dvdfan


    Its set to English(Ireland)

    When i went to check it then it started auto scrolling through all the countries and wouldnt stop, went back a minute later and it was fine, ive tried and old keyboard and rebooted and so ive ruled that out. Because of the scrolling issue ill try another mouse to rule that out but since its doing the weird character thing i dont think theres anything on the mouse that would cause this. Ill let you know how the new mouse thing goes. but hell is this annoying


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