My kids love to play on the 'puter. My 12 y.o. step-daughter downloads games from all over...I have no idea how she finds them. But my wall-paper screen is full of icons, and the computer is slow as molasses because it is so junked up. And we have several CD's with learning games that my 2 and 4 y.o. daughters love to play. Well, the other day, my wife tells me the keyboard is busted. It won't type. So I go restart the computer and log in under my profile and try it out...no problem. I figure it's fixed...just needed to restart. Later she tells me it's busted again. So I go try it out and figure out that it is only under her profile that it is screwed up...mine is fine. So it's obviously a setting somewhere. Then I figure out that if you hold the button down for about a second or two, it will type...confirming that the keyboard does work. But you can imagine how long it would take to type anything that way. So I'm searching and searching all the keyboard settings and cannot figure this out. Then my wife said it started when my 2 yo was hitting the shift key and didn't know if that had anything to do with it. Well, I figured out that she had set the "sticky keys" toggle. I un-set it and all was good...until the next day when my wife tells me it's busted again. It was the same thing...why my 2 y.o. likes the shift key best is beyond me.
Anyways, at least it's better than what their 2 y.o. cousin did to my mother-in-law's laptop. She figured out that you can pop off the buttons with her fingernail. Apparently some parts got lost and broken, so now she has no arrow keys...they are re-located to function as 4 of the letters that got lost.
She was not happy.
