Party Vibe

if there isn’t a key what has blatantly got stuck due to the weight of the feline resting on the keyboard, check if there is a key marked “Fn” on the keyboard..

on some laptops, this key pressed in conjunction with SHIFT, CTRL or ALT puts the keyboard into various odd modes where it behaves as if the SHIFT/CTRL/ALT key has been permanently pressed down. This can cause the behaviour you mention, or turn other letter keys into numbers.

one one Toshiba model it makes the machine act like CTRL is held down all the time. To clear it you usually have to press the Fn key along with the other key again.

Unfortunately the keys involved and the modes they change varies between each laptop make so I can’t be more specific. If you are lucky there are LEDs showing each mode, and one will be lit what wasn’t there before (or something in the manual explaining this)

IME loose cats amongst computers can cause as much disruption as the worst viruses/worms/hackers.

I have personally witnessed two separate sets of kittens actually create (by jumping on a keyboard) a file with single . as a filename which cannot be deleted. once in 1995, again in 2004. Its almost as if they know how to do this.. :crazy_diz

PawSense helps you catproof your computer. :laugh_at:

I have still not got worked out how the kittens created those files.

a single file with a “.” as a file name, zero length and on the desktop.

me and another chap from Reading who is also very skilled with IT cracked our brains trying to get rid of the files – neither of us could do it, and the kittens wouldn’t tell us how they did it :crazy_dru

this is starting to worry me, IME its a particularly obscure collection of keypresses required to make this happen to a display – I’ve just tried it and you have to go through multiple menues and choices

put a box over that keyboard as raj says, or next post will probably be globaloon saying he is getting random deliveries of prime steak and fish :laugh_at: