(I wasn't really too sure where to place this problem.)Okay, so before someone TELLS me to try another keyboard, I've tried 5 different ones. Obviously the keyboard isn't the issue with this. It's drivin' me nuts! Anywho, I've come to discover that my alt + t key binding doesn't working at all. Not only does my alt + t key binding not ever work, my alt +d and alt + b key bindings work when they want to. I'll have days where my alt + d will work all day and then not work for another 4-5 days. I've gotten around it by just not USING them but it's about to make me lose my mind. I want to know what is going on with this. It did this randomly. I've had my computer for 1.5 years and about 3 months ago it just decided to say "Hmm, those alt key bindings you enjoy should just stop. I'm done with alt. I don't like the button anymore." UGH! Please help me out. I've heard things about Norton Anti-Virus preventing particular key bindings due to a bug but I'm fairly certain it has nothing to do with that. I do play games and that's how I figured out all of this was going on. It doesn't work outside of the games either. Though, my alt + [insert whatever key] key binding WILL work with ALL OTHER LETTERS except t, d, and b. I can do alt 0-9 and alt e, r, q, h, etc. It's just those three. It kind of makes me want to scream a little. Thank you SO much for anyone who can help.I deleted the other posts - please do not post the same question more than once. Also, it would be easier for us to read your post and understand your problem if you eliminated the commentary and just stuck with the facts. Thank you.

Please try this:

Open msconfig and on the General tab choose "selective startup" (uncheck all three items) and reboot. Does the problem still occur? If not, START adding items back to msconfig one or two at a time, rebooting after each change, until the problem reappears and you'll have identified the offending process. This is clearly a time consuming procedure, but it is the best way to determine if some process loading with the system is the cause of your problem.

After you've isolated the cause, do not USE msconfig to permanently disable the process. Instead, if it is a service go to START - RUN and type: services.msc (then press enter) and disable the service OR, if it a program, you can download & run a simple app such as Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel (http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml) to enable, disable, or otherwise manage startup programs.do you still have the issue in Safe Mode?

What about if you boot to a Linux CD?

As an aside, Alt- combinations are typically referred to as Accelerator keys (these are typically underlined; for example, you can 'press' OK in many dialogs by pressing Alt-O). The relevance here is that if the application with the focus has controls (buttons, labels, frames, etc) which define Accelerators, the application itself won't "see" the Alt+Letter keypress at all. Given the widespread nature of your problem, though, I don't think that is the case.I'm going to try playing around with the msconfig and run in it in safe mode and see what happens
Thanks for the suggestions.Okay, I have good news. I unchecked the "Load Startup Items" box and my alt bindings are working again. Where would I go from here?

And as a side note - THANK YOU!Quote from: Joey93A on January 01, 2012, 04:06:14 PM

Where would I go from here?