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Apr 16, 2008 @ 16:52:11

monkeymadness

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The scroll wheel on my mouse has just decided to randomly switch between scrolling the page and making the text bigger/smaller, then I closed Firefox and tried to reopen it to see if it made it better and everytime I clicked on the quick start icon, the shortcut properties kept on popping up instead of Firefox! Also when I click on any link it opens that link in a new tab, it never used to do that unless the link was in a post!
IE works fine!

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Apr 16, 2008 @ 16:53:22

jonnythan

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Sounds to me like the CTRL button on your keyboard is either stuck, malfunctioning, or something is sitting on it.

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Apr 16, 2008 @ 16:54:36

monkeymadness

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Seems ok..... but its stopped doing it now...

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Apr 16, 2008 @ 16:55:29

jonnythan

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Sometimes that just happens. Usually if you just tap the offending button (or, if you're not sure which, just tap CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT all in sequence) it'll stop.

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Apr 16, 2008 @ 16:57:18

monkeymadness

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Cool cheers, I learned something!

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Apr 16, 2008 @ 17:04:20

alexkidd

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wow ctrl does do all that stuff...awesome

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Apr 16, 2008 @ 17:32:27

lord_dj

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monkeymadness said:
Also when I click on any link it opens that link in a new tab, it never used to do that unless the link was in a post!
IE works fine!

i always do that whaen im wrighting a long journal or threadso i can brwse and type

� The devil is a loser and he's my bitch
For better or for worse and you don't care which
The devil is a loser and he's my bitch
Runnin' into trouble you skitch
He's my bitch �

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Apr 16, 2008 @ 17:46:34

stumblinthrulife

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jonnythan said:
Sounds to me like the CTRL button on your keyboard is either stuck, malfunctioning, or something is sitting on it.

Having "sticky keys" enabled could also have the same effect. A single push of ctrl would be read as holding it down until it's pushed again.

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