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    From R.Wieser@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 28 12:41:07 2025
    XPost: alt.windows7.general

    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

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  • From JJ@21:1/5 to R.Wieser on Tue Jan 28 20:02:59 2025
    XPost: alt.windows7.general

    On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:41:07 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:
    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.

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

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  • From R.Wieser@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 28 17:07:28 2025
    XPost: alt.windows7.general

    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

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