ctrl key

Hello I'm new here and I hope I didn't post this in the wrong place. If so, I apologize! I've had a small, but annoying issue for a while now on my desktop PC. When I select multiple files while holding ctrl and using the mouse, my selection gets cancelled randomly if I hold CTRL too long. (~5...

I am running Win-7 SP1 (pro) with IE-11. When I try to open a link by double clicking it, and holding the ctrl key to get the web to open in a new page. All I get is a blank tab. It opens in place of the old tab if i don't hold down the ctrl key. I have the same problem after I changed to a...

Title explains it all. I have no idea how this happened, so is there a way to fix this?

Hi I am using Windows 8.1 and just about getting used to it! However I cannot find a way to select multiple documents or pictures in what I know as File Manager. In previous versions of Windows you could do this by selcting one document then holding down the shift or CTRL (sorry can't...

Using Windows 8.1 on HP machine All updates up-to-date Hardware: Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 Explorer Folder Option selected: Single-click to open an item (point to select); Underline icon titles only when I point on them Display: Detail list (Ctrl + Shift + 6) No touch input Here's the...

Hello, I have a very annoying problem and I have no idea what happened. I was playing CoD4 (as usually) yesterday, everything worked fine. Then I shut down my laptop and this morning I noticed my CTRL button isn't working. It works on OSK (On-Screen Keyboard). I've been searching for solution...

I am using a Toshiba Laptop for Windows 7. The Left and Right CTRL key is not working properly on my keyboard. I know that this is a very common problem for many people, but I have not been able to find a solution online for mine yet. I have also not found anybody whose CTRL keys have resulted...

Hi As title says my ctrl tab is not working. Have tried different keyboard & that didn't work. Running windows 7 Recently update Skype but read it could have been that so uninstalled and loaded older version - same with Kodak printer I am now back to June restore when everything was...

Hi My 'ctrl' key somehow becomes assigned to new and strange functions, like opening the start menu, opening 'help' guides, changing zoom and even tabs on firefox, and things like that. It has happened a few times now, and as mysteriously as it happens it also eventually goes off. Does anyone...

Press and hold CTRL key while clicking on each of the files that you want to rename. If your files are listed in successive order, simply highlight the first file, hold down the SHIFT key, and the click on the last file in the batch to select all files between them. Once the files are...

Greetings! There has been a problem with my computer for some time now and I have no idea how to solve it. I cannot press Right click while having Ctrl pressed. If I have Ctrl pressed and I press right click nothing happens. Instead of the normal box that should appear in Windows, I get a weird...

In the organize tab I cannot select all or change folder settings. Using the ctrl key does not work either? I am using win 7 home premium?

My computer thinks that I am holding the ctrl key. I did the updates and it still hasn't fixed. ALso did a complete restore and tried and brand new keyboard. Any ideas? Dell was no help at all and I have been searching and still can't seem to get it fixed

Here is a bit of a weird issue which I am hoping somebody else has solved. I am running build 7068 x64, and every once in awhile, I will be surfing the internet, and when I scroll with the wheel on the mouse, the page size will either shrink or enlarge depending on which way I scrolled. Or I...

I have Vista set up to open folders in the same window. Sometimes I want to open the Parent of a folder in a new window. With Windows XP I could hold down the CTRL key while double-clicking the 'Up' icon. I cannot find a way of doing the same in Vista. Is there a way to open the Parent folder...