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Well, that rules out my best dvice.

Well, that rules out my best advice.

Control Panel, Filter keys, Settings, keyboard Shortcut - what's a Mac?

A Mac comes in one size...Big. I think I'll have one for lunch.

(from the MS KB) To work around this problem, disable the Shortcut option for Filter keys:
In Control Panel, double-click Accessibility Options.
Under FilterKeys, click Settings.
Under Keyboard shortcut, click to clear the Use shortcut check box. Hope this helps.

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The only solution of the problem is to leave your habit ;)

Well, If you ABSOLUTELY must keep your creaky, antiquated, hardly working, PC, then at least dump windows and get Linux. That will solve the problem...

Or get a Mac.

Aha! So that's where the setting is! I'd say D'0h but I'm going to instead claim this as a MSFT UI problem.

As for getting linux: I have linux on a separate machine. As a desktop system (gnome and kde) I've found that it's far less stable than XP. Not only do I have to spend hours finding the command line commands for doing simple things, but the system freezes and crashes frequently. E.g., I just had to reboot in order to restore sound. Now, it turns out that I could also just have killed the right process (artsd? something like that), but how the hell am I supposed to know which is the sound processing process? So, while linux is rock solid as a server, my experience as a desktop end user is that it's not yet ready for desktop end users.

How about:

1. format c:

2. Insert Windows 2000 CD

3. run setup.exe

Newer is definitely not always better. ;-)

OK WELL OBVIOUSLY GIVEN ALL THE CAPITAL LETTERS IF SOMEBODY COULD PLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEE HELP ME I WOULD BE THE MOST APPRECIATIVE GIRL IN THE WHOLE FREAKIN COUNTRY! MY PATIENCE WORE OUT ABOUT @) MINUTES AGO AND I CAN"T STAND IT AT ALL FOR MUCH LONGER HELP!!!BTW THE @) IS TWENTY>>> DAMN FILTER KEYS!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah..! I figured it out..! Hit both shifts at the same time..! It took me like 20 minutes.. god that was annoying...

Microsoft says that you just hold down the right shift key for 8 more seconds to turn it off. Worked for me, though no dialog box comes up to tell you so, and you still see the Filter keys icon in the system tray. You see under the general tab that you have the option of turning on or off the original dialogue and the option of turning off or on a sound that lets you know it's back off.

BTW...to get the system try icon out of there, look for go to FilterKey settings and uncheck "show status on screen"

To turn off the filter keys hold down shift, press F7, then push they other shift key three times. The PC will beep like it does when you turn filter keys on.
Let me know how you get on, Fred Taylor.
If you need any more help give me a ring (UK) 07746895964

MAN, good job I read this page, I was going ape-s*** with this and couldn't afford to reboot to fix the problem.

Thanks a lot BRITT! The pressing both shitfs at the same time method worked! Man that filter keys was really annoying

Sorry, I meant Kim. I'm used to the poster's name being before the post, rather then after. Well thanks a lot Kim for that tip :)

thanx aloT BRITT!!!!! stupid filerkeys. You are screwed in any way when you see the dialog appear when you pressed shift for 8 seconds.
If you press OK then nothing works, if you press cancel, shift seems to be stuck, and setting helps neither...

I anyone ever holds the RIGHT shift key, for 8 seconds, a dialog box pops up. Press ESC not Cancel or you'll end up witha "frozen on" shift key and then have to fight it to get it off...

fucking filter keys bollocks.

WOW! Holding down both shifts WORKED!!! THX!!

HEY... I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING YOU GUYS SAID AND i CAN'T GET RID OF THIS STICKY SHIFT THING... ANY MORE IDEAS?

(I WANT TO KILL GATES)

hahaha that shit was so annoying i just pressed both shifts and it went away, thanks all!!!!

This information saved my life tonight. Thank you Fred Taylor, you are indeed good and wise.

Okay i cant get rid of the filter keys. tried the
2 shifts tried the one with f7. I camt figure it out! please someone help me be4 i go crazy!!

The ControlPanel->Accessibility options did not fix the FilterKeys problem. Pressing both shifts did.

Who the hell thought that an Accessibility option should make make my computer INACCESSIBLE! I hope MS fires that idiot.

OK, I have an elementary school lab and have gone through the accessablity options and turned off the hotkey. Problem is these little kids are still locking up the keyboards somehow.

If they leave it for 5-10 minutes it goes back to normal or if I unplug the keyboard and plug it back in that works.

Anyone know how to just disable that stupid FilterKey thing all together?

Thankgod for this page, yes me- yet another victim of the damn filter keys.

It's stupid, but here is the (deranged) rationale behind it. They want to make it so a handicapped person can use somebody else's computer, even if the owner does not use filterkeys. So holding down the shift key is kind of a back door. A regular person can turn it on and off easily, but a handicapped person is kind of screwed without the back door. Kind of like an emergency feature for handicapped people.

Having said that, filter keys is a good thing, but they should make it possible to completely permanently disable this piece of crap. Frustrating turd.

Both Shift Keys worked...you bloody legend! I was about to punch a hole through my monitor.

Another sad victim of Microsoft's brilliant OS: pressing cancel caused shift to stick, double pressing shifts solved it - thanks, guys!

THANK YOU ALL!

I was so irritated. the two shifts worked. Now I have new method. I seem to do it a ton

Thanks for all the help on this! I also run an elementary school computer lab, and thought I'd lose my mind over this one. I imagine the kids are holding down the shift key and hunting the keyboard for the letter they want to capitalize, enabling this annoyance. WHAT were they thinking to make this a default!!!! I am on my way to disable it, right now, before I become the one with the tremors!

The irony is mind-boggling:

To invent an accessibility feature, that enables
a handicapped person, unable to press two keys at the same time, to use the shift key features.

A feature that has to be disabled...
...by pressing two keys at the same time!!

Bill Gates is the Devil!
Mort

Thank you soooooooooooooo much

I have that habit too and I drove me crazy. The 2 shifts worked. THX

I love whoever told me how to get rid of this w/ the two shifts at the same time. I almost put my puter through the window.

your awesome Kim for finding out that you hold both shift keys to turn filter keys off. I'm trying to type a paper for tomarrow and its 12 and ive been trying to turn off my filter keys for a half hour. Thank you

Good god! I had no idea this was such a widespread problem- I just thought I was a complete spanner..

THANX! ALOT!

thanx people..i was stuck whith capital letters for a few minuetes there and thought i was screwed.

I think i speak for us all when i say "mmm filterkeys, what a useless addition to xp"

Both shift keys, thanks that was so fucking annoying. I hold shift for 8 seconds, prompt says hit cancel to cancel filter keys, I do that and jack shit happens.

And they categorize this feature as an "accessiblity" option?!?! I guess if you don't want to access your computer....

I was about to loose what little hair that I had left.....driving me crazy. Thanks for the double shift advice, it worked like a charm.
double shift = banishment to hell for filter keys.

I think we should all give Microsoft, Mr. Gates and everybody else a big "FUCK YOU!" for creating filterkeys, and an even bigger "FUCK YOU MORONIC ASSHOLES" (all typed with filterkeys on of course, because that would be the reason why it's in all caps) for not disabling it when we hit cancel. Thank you guys very much for the double shift advice, I almost lost a report for college I am in the middle of typing.

In response to the following suggestion, thank you very much; your solution worked for me. Stephanie
To work around this problem, disable the Shortcut option for Filter keys:
In Control Panel, double-click Accessibility Options.
Under FilterKeys, click Settings.
Under Keyboard shortcut, click to clear the Use shortcut check box. Hope this helps.

Posted by: Mark Federman on October 9, 2003 09:34 AM

I need some assist with this. I can turn & off the filter keys on my win98 machine. However..., when I reboot the machine it dafaults to the filterkeys feature on. In spite of the fact I turned it off. Any Idea how to disable this feature so it stays off unless I specifically want it on?

Thanks

I accidentially turned on filter keys i didn't even know what it was. I thought something happened to my key board. Then i saw a liittle icon appear. I clicked on that and the filter key option came up. I unchecked the filter key and it worked. Only now the num lock light is not lit any more does anyone know why?

Thank god, I want to kill the person who implemented the filter keys feature. Both shifts solved it though.

god bless google for putting this page near the top of my results. holy crap, why don't they DOCUMENT that you have to press them both to turn it off?

nearly pulling out my fingernails with my teeth, feelings of extreem low slef worth and despiration bloody filter keys....... to what evil end do they serve..... but a combination of tips from this page appear to have worked....not sure which one or ones but the filter keys are now off.
THANK YOU

You guys are legends i kept doing it when i was drunk and somehow finding the way to turn it off by pressing every key by sitting on my key board, however when sober never had the stones to try it. Now problem solved, can have my drunken fun and get out of it.

THANK YOU

Ya know these wrok decent for hard wired keyboards but i have found that hitting shift both times after clicking ok instead of cancle or hitting esc doesnt work that great... as for unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in worked great for me

Thanks all for all the great posts

Thank you for the "hold down both shift keys at once" commenter! I found this site while typing an essay and accidently turning filterkeys on.

hey i had the exact same problem!! i googled how to turn them off and i read this! god those damn fitler keys suck!!! lol. i have the same habbit... lol

xOo...Lailah

Kim, You are my hero.

Holding both the shift keys did it!!!!

Thanks for the comments......

Ajith

thanks jeremy,
i was getting really fustrated with the filter keys because whever i type in msn and try to send the message with the enter key i couldnt do it. but the trick is :
...to get the system try icon out of there, look for go to FilterKey settings and uncheck "show status on screen...

it helped alot.
thanks

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Last time, I felt like a complte idiot having to call help desk. When it happened this time, I immediately started mentally cursing and my palms honestly sweat. Stupid MS Help did NOT help at all, and couldn't open its own help pages anyway.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU, for making it all go away. What in God's green earth is that miserable function supposed to accomplish?

they should rename it shittykeys - thanks for the help on here, i was going insane in the membrane.

chris

TY TY TY TY TY TY TY, I HATE IT. THE HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEYS WORKED!!!!! TY

Disable all the stupid accessibility keys for good by importing these registry settings...

;----------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Disable Sticky Keys
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\StickyKeys]
"Flags"="506"

;Disable Filter Keys
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\Keyboard Response]
"Flags"="122"

;Disable Toggle Keys
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\ToggleKeys]
"Flags"="58"
;-------------------------------------

Or download it here:
http://magicsynthesis.com/download/disablestupidkeys.reg

so why doesn't microsfot list this in the next service pack as a needed update. cause that holding the right shift again for 8 sec did diddly. But that R and L shift together worked like a charm.

holding down both shift keys at the same time worked for me, damn shortcuts

Ahhhhh... two shifts worked for me. StickyKeys and vi equals a world of hurt.

Holy SHIT that was so much bull shit it says push to keys at once and it did shit then i saw this website and it saved me so FUCKING much

thank you fred. you shift f7 shift 3 times worked for me...

The reg file worked, thanks.

All the other things failed to keep the FilterKeys option from popping up when pressing the right shift key 5 times.

Finally releafe from the *&%&%^()&*_) filterKeys.

THANK GOD for every one here, I was going OUT OF MY MIND with filter keys. Pressing both shift keys worked INSTANTLY. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!
~Rachel

AT BLOODY LAST !!! THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH FRED!!!! THE KEYS HAVE LEFT ME AND THEY,VE TOLD ME I CAN LEAVE THE SANATORIUM WHERE I,VE BEEN A COMPLETE BASKET CASE FOR THE LAST MONTH!!!!
IS IT PART OF A BIG PLAN TO SEND US ALL MAD AND DRIVE US TOWARDS MAC????

Thanks, this page quite funny too read, I guess I'm kind of lucky for getting cursed with the fiter keys. Especially BRITT and her comment. I'll send people to see this one.

holding both shift keys did nothing at first, then i hit them both together repeatedly for a while and somewhere in said process filter keys disappeared! thankyou

Gahhh!!!

this took me so long to type!
nothing worked!

Thanks to Mark Federman for the comment on turning off filterkeys!!!

Thank you! Quite an annoying feature while playing game and having shift as jump-button - before this solution XP quite often simply changed from a game to this sticky keys settings -window..

You definately made my day today!

My PC just started exhibiting "sticky keys" last night for no reason.

All settings under Control Panel/Accessibility are "Off".

All registry values for Flags under "Sticky Keys", "Filter Keys" and "Toggle Keys" are already set as recommended earlier in this thread by "John" on June 22.

The "R,F,L,U and other keys still bring up Windows XP system screens and I still don't know how it got turned on or, more importantly, how to turn it off!

Also, no viruses found on system (Norton) and Spybot S & D gives it a clean scan...

HELP!

Bo

i hate this bitch function. i took me an hour to figure out u have to hold both shifts to stop that shit function
FUCK U filter keys

OMG, this FilterKeys is Sh!T , which MS-idiots created it ?

I was going to hit my PC with a hammer !!! , thanks god I found this site !

Press and Keep Right Shift 15 secs worked, and also Keep both ShiftKeys for 5 secs Worked. I haven't tried the F7 thing but it may be a possible solution, too.

Thanks a bunch,

oh man thank you SO MUCH KIM. I love you to death. I'm doing some last-minute papers and I have hardly a clue how to work this Microsoft Word 2003. I have like 5 hours to get this done before I need to start getting ready for school, and when the whole Filter keys thing popped up I like almost DIED. I just like cried for 10 minutes. HOLDING DOWN BOTH OF THE SHIFT KEYS AT THE SAME TIME DOES WORK! Genius. & thanks google for getting me at this page! haha you guys probably are like why is she writing all this? But I'm just so happy. =) oh man thank you SO MUCH KIM. I love you to death. I'm doing some last-minute papers and I have hardly a clue how to work this Microsoft Word 2003. I have like 5 hours to get this done before I need to start getting ready for school, and when the whole Filter keys thing popped up I like almost DIED. I just like cried for 10 minutes. HOLDING DOWN BOTH OF THE SHIFT KEYS AT THE SAME TIME DOES WORK! Genius. & thanks google for getting me at this page! haha you guys probably are like why is she writing all this? But I'm just so happy. =)

Thank you Kim! You should be working at Mircosoft! Whoever thought Filterkeys up needs a good flogging!

After reading how to get rid of Filterkeys for good, it works and here is what to do. Go to Start, down at your toolbar, then Control Panel, then Accessibility Options, then Filterkeys, make sure it is unchecked but you have to also click on Settings and uncheck Use Shortcut then click Apply and then Ok and Voila! No more blanking Filterkeys. Do the same for Stickykeys and Togglekeys if you want them then to go away too forever. For me, I am Filterkey, Stickykey and Togglekey FREE!

thanks for advice, it really helped me a lot :)

i have turned on my filterkey by accident and now i cant turn it back off again:@ please can someone help me!!!!

bob you are my life saver i tries every thing holding down one shift ky holding dow them both but nothing seemed to work but the whole unchecking the boxes worked thanks a lot your a life saver x x x x x mwah!!

Well....The two shitfs doesn't seem to be working for me. WHAT DO I DO!?

Wow!! I googled how to turn off filterkeys and I got this blog page and thank god it was here b/c i would have been a nervous wreck. I'm at work and thought i destoyed the system...holding both shift keys @ the same time works!!!! THANK GOD FOR BLOGS!!!!!!!!!! :)

how about a post-christmas party in Frisko ?

thanks fucking god. Sticky,Filter keys, and WTH the other one is, was pissing me off. THANX SO MUCH FOR THE REG

I absolutly despise filter keys. So Anyway i did the double shift key thing and that partly helped. Well it got my numbers working again 123 instead of the bloody !@#. BUT IF I DON'T HOLD SHIFT IN IT TYPES CAPS. when i hold shift in it takes off caps. So the letters are still back to front. Numbers are normal, 123, the signs appear when i hold shift in.

i give up for now, hoping the problem fixes itself eventually as i have always previously relied on. Thanks for the double shift advice, i needed my numbers working again and at least it got those back.

STUPID, STUPID FILTER KEYS, WHY ON EARTH DID THEY COME UP WITH THIS. SORRY FOR ALL THE CAPS BUT MY LITTLE FINGER WAS HURTING FROM HOLDING IN THE SHIFT KEY TO TYPE NORMALLY.

I'm doing a paper tonight that is waaaay overdue and this blog just saved me another rambling excuse to my prof. THANK YOU, THANK YOU,THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

life savers that shit sucks!!!!

This was quite annoying. Tried shift F7 combo, Both Shifts, Unplugging keyboard and pluging back in, R Shift 8 Seconds, 15 Seconds, Reboot. Nothing worked. Finally found a wired keyboard (system only had wireless one). Shift-F7, Both shifts. N othing. Took the 15 seconds on Right Shift with a wired keyboard to turn off this crap.

Thank you you saved my life

i f-ing hate filter keys! VIVA LA REVELUTION (a revolution with no filter keys)

Thanks all, today this filter key issue S***ED me enough to find what others are doing about it. Unfortunity without a doubt filter keys will magically turn on again: whether it be after a patch upgrade, reboot or other unreasonable excuse like the weather.

After using windows based OS's for over 20 years and Ms-Windows since it's beginning it's typical to realise that MS sees us Ms-Windows users as being retarded (ie: with filter keys ON by default) so they try to prevent our uncoordinated fingers from repeating a key unintentionally ;)

It seems MS(MSN), Google, Aol, etc are all about CONTROL and we should at least wake up to that! I think Ms-Windows is starting to inhibit my creative freedom and I'd rather learn Linux and let our world wide community govern what I can do and not do with computer technology rather than a few powerful companies. I question Mac's too as they recently went from 64 or 32 bit CPU's and are trying to convince people they are doing this for our benefit.... Why do they think people are stupid?
-Gob

THANX ALOT THE HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEYS TOGETHER WORKES

pressing down both shift keys works great to fix stupid filter key problem. no box comes up to tell you though! Thanks kim! That always happens to me and drives me nuts!

well i seem to have contracted the problem as well i have to keep capslocks on just to have lowercase letters my mouse highlights everything in the window if i click it and my keyboard acts like i"m holding down shift for everything kim mentioned holding both shifts at the same time jeremy said only hold the right shift microsoft says press shift five times or some junk and fred taylor said hold shift fseven and press the other shift three times as you can tell nothing has worked hell it even tells me i held shift for eight seconds and gives me the filter key problem when i get to the welcome screen starting up the computer is there anything i can do to fix this that hasn"t been said before because nothing works now

The accessibility options in controlpanel worked, I nearly fed up my computer cause the mouse didnt work and caps always on. But now Im happy :)
thx Mark Federman

So pleased I chose this page from Google to look at first - problem solved within seconds. Thank you + + + !

Several months ago this got turned on and I found a form maybe this one and I figured out how to "shut" it off, thank god for two computers. But after I would restart it would always come back, today I got sick of it:

In the accessibility options in the control panel

>under keyboard tab

>ensure that the use Filter Keys is off

Go into the settings and

>uncheck the use shortcut

>click ok

>under general tab click at the bottom click

>Apply all settings to logon desktop

And I recommend the other option to

>Apply all settings to defaults for new users

This finally fixed it permanently upon restart I no longer have the problem. It is really annoying I don't know I how I dealt with it for months, some time holding down shift didn't work so I had to logon and go into accessibility and shut it off that way.
This might be good for handy capped people but I really think they need to work on it. It sucks for everybody else.

Well, that was fun. I managed to lock up 2 pcs at once with this stupid feature.
I have an old p3 laptop and I use RDP to access my main pc when I want to do something and watch TV at the same time. Is quicker using RDP than doing things on the laptop anyway as it is quite old.
Anyway was reading an ebook and fell asleep woke up with laptop hibernated. Unlocked main pc the next morning to be greeted by a repeated slow beep, half the keys not working and the filterkeys icon in the tray. Odd that i had never come across this before, i thought i had a keylogger or other nasty! Especially as ctrl-alt-del wouldnt work.
When laptop came out of hibernation and asked for password of course nothing i did would work as i had mixture of cases in it. Had to force a hard reboot to get back in.
Presumably, while I was reading ebook and scrolling through with cursor keys I must have managed to rest my fingers on the shift key as i fell asleep lol.

Thanks for this site guys! I was ready to throw my laptop out the window!! After finalling getting my way to google my query was a heated "how do i turn off the fucking filter keys!" first rank on google was this site and it's gold! *count to 10 and breathe*
Thanks!

You guys might consider dl-ing xplite. The trial version can clean up this brilliant MS invention for good. Now I can sleep on my shift key.

Great info!

Now for another problem along these lines.

I have a user the had filter keys on and then rebooted her pc.

Now I can't get get logged on (crtl-alt-del)because the filter keys are still active.

This is an XP Pro attached to a Domain.

Any thoughts, I haven't gone over to her office and tried to reboot in safe mode yet.

There's an upside to this: if the richest man in the world can think the implementation of "stick-keys" a good idea, then success has less to do with good judgement than you might assume. So stop kicking yourself over all those lousy decisions you've made that (you thought) kept you from billionairedom. Relax. In truth, all you can do is hope for better luck next time.

There's an upside to this: if the richest man in the world can think the implementation of "stick-keys" a good idea, then success has less to do with good judgement than you might assume. So stop kicking yourself over all those lousy decisions you've made that (you thought) kept you from billionairedom. Relax. In truth, all you can do is hope for better luck next time.

I hope this info is usefull to me but when I first encountered this problem i decided to reboot.What a mistake that was no i cant get passed the reboot screen absolutely nothing works.Tried unplugging and putting in another keyboard.I'm just gonna trash this thing

I hope this info is usefull to me if i can finaly get the damn pc to reboot but when I first encountered this problem i decided to reboot.What a mistake that was no i cant get passed the reboot screen absolutely nothing works.Tried unplugging and putting in another keyboard.I'm just gonna trash this thing

You can also try to update your keyboard driver by going to control panel>system>hardware>device manager>click plus sign beside keyboards>right click the installed keyboard driver name>choose update>just in case it asks you to connect to the internet, just say no, not this time>choose install from a list or specific location>choose don't search, i will choose the driver to install>then choose the appropriate keyboard driver. reboot your pc afterwards.

Then i suggest to disable shittykeys i mean stickykeys for good by applying what john proposed and that is by using reg edit or applying the reg file. Hope this is the end of it.

Yay! I held down both shift keys down at the same time (like it was suggested above),and the FilterKeys went away! Thanks!!

i've tried both shifts n da R shift f7 n L shift but mi laptop still is muddlin up da keybord like when i press 'l' it comes out as 3 n when i press 'O' it comes out as 6 do u av ne advise?

thanks! Im another idiot who has now been able to overcome filter keys by visiting this page- thanks to you all!

All I can say is this blog saved my PC's life. I have been having the same trouble as you over the past year or so and the only way I could get rid of the shift lock is by rebooting (I could not do this today as I have been running a file over 300 hours and I do not want to start that over again)

Thank-you, thank-you!

PS: Yeah Mac’s are great, but it is like buying a Ferrari – Looks good, runs on premium fuel only, costs a fortune to maintain and has limited support(which is bloody expensive). Give me a PC any day, this way I can still afford a few drinks on a Saturday night!

Before: HELP ME I CAN"T LIVE LIKE THIS! I"VE BEEN AT IT FOR LIKE *) MINUTES!!!!

After: thanks all both shifts canceled it

Thanks Kim for the tip. Filter Keys are annoying Holding the two shift keys simultaneously solved it

Another FilterKey victim.

I will now dedicate my life to the painful death of FilterKeys.

FUCKING "FEATURE"!

Thank gawd for google, and the term crappy filter keys cos this always gets me. stoopid stoopid filter keys need to burn in hell.

Keep it bumped, cos its a piece of good advice for a piece of crap programming.

Thank you guys so much.Made these damn filter keys come on twice now , last time ,figured it out myself but this time couldn't remember what I did last time.So frustrating, but holding down both shift keys worked, thanks a million , gonna tell everyone I know.

I hate filter keys! Fuck them.

I'm sure I've stuffed the work computer. Nothing works!!! No double shift no shift f7 no unpluggin argh!!!

Fuck those filter keys. send them to hell!

try the two shift keys...it worked for me!!!

I wouldn't bother with the START, CONTROL PANEL, ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS...etc...until you try the shift keys!!!...quick and easy! :)

Good Luck!

Thanks guys it worked.

You can try pressing and holding down both shift keys while pressing once on the caps lock button.

Thank you so much! I'm a key tapper/holder thinker too and all the stuf freaked out on me while filling out an online job applications. Your blog saved my butt.

Holding down both Shift keys solved it.

Thanks.

i enabled filterkeys and now when i sign in to my email and stuff the passwords don"t work? what do i do?

Thank you all for this long but excellent read it has helped me as well. If your willing to endure my long drawn out story, I would definitely like to tell it you might get a chuckle.
I’m pretty PC savvy & work in the high tech industry so I never expected to encounter something that has been a problem for over 3yrs. Although I new about sticky keys, I don’t have the habit like some do, so I never had to deal with it. Then one day someone at work was showing me how you could use this “sticky key” setting to pull a prank on someone. I thought it was funny, they tried it on me a couple of times. I just reset it through the keyboard settings. Then just yesterday one of the guys tried it again on me as well as changing a ton of other display settings on my pc, including how Internet explorer displays the fonts. I did the usual stuff but got frustrated with the font settings. I was also trying to go home as the car pool was waiting. So I thought I could run the restore point to 24 hrs earlier. That screwed everything up. Now the corp. log in screen would not take the “Cntl Alt Del” just like Steve’s situation. Well I didn’t want to call the IT department, as I knew I could figure it out on my own. Thanks to you all, especially the funny comments, you all made me feel better today. I was able to get into the log in by using the “Right Shift key”. It seemed more than 8 seconds but I waited till the log in box quit flashing then tried the “Cntl Alt Del” keys. Save the day, I also disabled all the sticky keys so they can’t try that one on me again. I must say that I enjoy learning new things but agree with you all that this was frustrating for me as well. By the way I noticed a setting that you can set to disable the sticky keys after 5 min. of inactivity, this way if they try to trick me again it could be that the joke is on them.

Keep smiling. :-)

I have tried all of those things and none work I hope that prick at ms gets fired screw filter keys!!!

To turn off blue keys hold down FN and touch NUMLK

What annoys me most is... when you move on to another computer and you daydream leaning on the right shift key for the first time... once that dialog comes up you know youre screwed.

The bloody cancel doesn't work! I was testing it and I think the difference between OK and Cancel is... OK turns on filter keys and sticky keys whereas Cancel just turns on sticky keys.
(YOURE PRICKS MS - If youre going to ask me if I want filter keys on, why not ask me if I want sticky keys on too?).

The double-shift works great and then its straight to the disablement for me.

This topic is 3 years old. If he ain't done it by now, it ain't happenin'.

I had the same problem today, which is why I came to this page. Yes, holding down both shifts was they key!

This site has saved me valuble time that I needed for a report I had to write yesterday night/early this morning. What's the point of filterkeys, anyway?

It's really easy! All you have to do is got Accessibility Options on the control Panel. Then click on settings next to Filter Keys. Then Uncheck show Filter Key Status on screen.

May not work for everyone though because holding down the two shifts and all that didn't work for me as it did for a lot of other people.

Thank you thank you thank you for this posting. This filter key thing was going to put me over the edge.

Thank goodness for this site! Yeah, I was one who decided to "take a rest" and got the filter keys turned on. I was getting a little stressed on trying to shut it off, came to this site, and had fun reading everyone's comments. So, thanks to all who has posted here, I'm no longer stressed!

Wow topic is more than three years old, but still frustrating the hell out of people. My computer was about to go to Davy Jones Locker til I found this site.

Not to be redundant but WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF FILTER/STICKY KEYS? I cant see how these things would make the computer more "Accessible" for challenged people, if those of us able poeple become disabled when the features are used. And whomever said earlier that the cancel doesnt work when that screen comes up, IS SO RIGHT.

BTW the double shift thing worked for me and I reset the control panel settings to turnoff the short cut to end the frustration for us daydreamers.

thanks both the Left &