Two further thoughts: 1) Sometimes keyboard anomalies happen when a keyboard other than the default/expected keyboard is inadvertently activated in Windows. If you have multiple keyboards installed, press Winkey+spacebar repeatedly until the desired keyboard is (re)activated. 2) I wrote a Windows program, UnStick.exe, that attempts to "unstick" the Shift, Alt and Ctrl keys if any of them happen to be stuck in the down position: https://xywwweb.ammaze.net/dls/unstick.zip Create a Desktop shortcut and double-click it if you are having keyboard issues. Can't hurt, might help. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx