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Windows key randomly "sticks" on Windows 7/Vista

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20266365 views
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I'm having this annoying problem where Windows randomly seems to decide that I have the Windows key pressed down (even though I don't), and every key press will trigger an associated Windows key shortcut until I press the Windows key, which seems to reset it. I don't get any kind of pop up or notif…

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Fix for: Windows key randomly "sticks" on Windows 7/Vista

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I'm pretty sure your keyboard is malfunctioning... if this is a desktop, try another keyboard. If its a laptop, try cleaning the keyboard, but the laptops keyboards are kind of fragile. I mean, if the keyboard hardware went bad, you have to replace …

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