right shift key works perfectly normally. no symbols of any kind on the left shift key at all...just a normal, single function key. keyboard shows up normally in control panel. i do have a light that indicates caps lock. and it doesn't matter if it's on or off...the left shift key does nothing...
It's a laptop. I tried removing the left shift key...depressed the little rubber thing underneath it a few times...blew a bit of air around it. I did try plugging in a usb keyboard into the laptop. The left shift on the usb keyboard works. BUT...it doesn't fix the odd issue where i MUST login...
Ok...so originally, I was having all sorts of odd problems with the capslock. Lowercase letters when capslock was on, upper case when capslock was off, symbols instead of numbers regardless of capslock of shift key, etc. I disabled every single keyboard related "ease of access" setting (sticky...