Re: Pressing Shift cause beep; how can the beep be disabled

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From: Ray at <%=sLocation%> [MVP] (%=sLocation%)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:24:29 -0500

"Toggle Keys" in the accessibility options in the control panel, although
the beep actually occurs on Caps Lock, Scroll Lock, and Num Lock, not Shift.
If this is really happening with the Shift key on the desktop, well, I don't
know what that would be all about.

Ray at home

"Richard Muller" <No-one@Nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:u0SF4p6DEHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I've got a friend whose Win2000 system has started to beep when he presses
> the Shift key while displaying nothing but the Desktop. It sounds to me
> like he might have triggered an Accessibility feature, but I can't find
any
> info on that symptom in Win2000 Help. Of course, it might also be a
virus,
> but I'm hoping that there might be a simple configuration setting of some
> sort that will solve his problem.

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