Unexpected (unknown) behaviour ..

[R.Wieser]

Hello all,

OS: XPsp3

A short while ago I noticed that my 'puters loudspeakers where muted (the
systray loudspeaker icon showed a small round red "X" sub-icon), while I was
pretty sure I did not do that myself.

Some days of monitoring thet icon revealed something rather unexpected :
regardles of having FF, explorer, word or notepad open, typing ctrl-F + "1"
* caused the "mute" setting to toggle.

(Tryping ctrl-F + "2"..."9" doesn't seem to do anything, I checked. :-) )

* causing FF to pop-up it text-search bar and Explorer to open its search
sidebar. Word and notepad open their "search" dialogs. The "1" keystoke
doesn't show.

Question:

Does anyone know where that that behaviour can be configured ?

Regards,
Eudy Wieser

[JJ]

Post by R.Wieser
Hello all,
OS: XPsp3
A short while ago I noticed that my 'puters loudspeakers where muted (the
systray loudspeaker icon showed a small round red "X" sub-icon), while I was
pretty sure I did not do that myself.
regardles of having FF, explorer, word or notepad open, typing ctrl-F + "1"
* caused the "mute" setting to toggle.

Likely worn out keyboard internal circuit's components. Check with keyboard
scan code diagnostic tool.

[R.Wieser]

JJ,

Post by JJ
Likely worn out keyboard internal circuit's components.
Check with keyboard scan code diagnostic tool.

While thinking about how to test that theory (and coming up with plugging
another keyboard in and see what it would do) I realized something : I'm
using a KVM.

And whatdoyou know, the origional, possible malfunctioning keyboard directly
plugged into the puter works fine.

IOW, I made a fool of myself by blindly assuming that it was something
Windows does (similar to handling special keystrokes which shut down the
'puter, launch the webbrowser, etc.), and not considering other
possibilities - like a failing keyboard and other things.

Now I have to read up on that KVM ...

Thanks.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser