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I just bought a brand-new laptop a couple of weeks ago with Windows 11 on it but from day 1 I've been having issues with the keyboard. For example, if I hold down the down arrow button or W key too long sometimes, the window start button activates. If I'm casually typing or scrolling on the web, sometimes either shift, ctrl, windows, or fn key (I haven't been able to verify which ones specifically are the issue but it looks like it's different ones at different times) acts like it's stuck so if I click on something, the computer thinks I'm holding down the shift, windows, etc. key + whatever key I pressed. Sometimes I can't even type anything because of this.
If I lock myself out of my account and then log myself back in, it goes away temporarily so the problem only happens when I'm logged in because the keyboard never does this on the sign in screen. Even if I use an external keyboard or even the on-screen one, it still does the exact same thing so it seems to me it's a software issue and not a hardware one. I've tried updating the keyboard drivers and mouse drivers and uninstalling and reinstalling them. I turned off sticky keys and all that but still nothing. The keyboard troubleshooter has found no issue either. Would appreciate any help with this.
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2023-03-30T11:32:17+00:00 March 30th 2023
Same issue here, progressively getting more frustrating.
Was just doing some work on Canva and backspace got "Stuck" down and deleted all the slides.Incredibly annoying having to spam the Redo button.
No issues from windows 10.
New laptop - been using it for about 3 weeks - ASUS Zephyrus G14 (2022)
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Anonymous
2023-02-26T08:05:17+00:00 I'm using an Apple Magic Keyboard on my Desktop Windows 11 and seeing this issue, it is most likely the sticky keys feature , since i turned it once and ever since i see this behavior
I'm not sure what triggers it, but it's only modifyers keys like shift, alt and windows nowadays (when i had windows 10 it happened with letters and numbers too) .
I say it's the sticky keys feature because a new account does not have this issue, but using my main microsoft account does and the behavior matches the feature that sticky keys offer to force modifier keys to act as holded, do not turn this feature. If you do you'll see this issue. In fact do not enable anything on sticky keys, it just plains sucks.
There is no solution, even if you fix it it will come back, i have struggle with this for years, just reboot if it's too bad or tap the key a bunch of times until the behavior is gone.
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Anonymous
2022-11-19T20:46:06+00:00 Just bought a new laptop, ROG Zephyrus, having the same issue. I can't imagine that all of us are having this issue because of a faulty keyboard on our laptops, it's gotta be windows 11. I am going to try that repeated key filter thing but otherwise I'm not really sure what to do!
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Anonymous
2022-06-22T18:39:36+00:00 I was able to resolve this issue by moving to the insider program and updating. I got the idea from a reddit thread where the user did the same thing. Hopefully, MS will fix the underlying issue and I can go back to regular software.