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ctrl+shift not working together
I am running windows 11 21H2 and suddenly I am not able to use the left shift+ctrl together. Tried changing language settings typing methods as well. Some issues I am facing are: - Unable to inspect...
Has anyone found an actual solution to this problem yet? It's happening to me too when I use ctrl + left shift on ANY of my apps or even websites. It's becoming very frustrating
Thanks everyone for this information. A very similar problem to this just surfaced for me.
Summary: Ctrl+Shift+LeftArrow (or Right Arrow) stopped working for me
Details:
- occurred suddenly with no new hardware/software installed
- Sticky Keys option wasn't enabled on my computer
- Ctrl and Shift and the Arrow keys all work fine separately
- Ctrl+Shift with other keys works fine! eg in Chrome Ctrl+Shift+I opens up developer mode
- still fails whether Ctrl+Shift+Arrows used on left or right side of keyboard
- still fails on the keyboard attached to my Surface Pro or external fob logitech keyboard
- still fails with my AutoHotKey app suspended (made no recent changes in any case)
It seems like Ctrl+Shift+Arrows now maps to something else that doesn't do anything visible. I only use Ctrl+Shift+Arrows to select words in text in Windows editors but my hands can't stop using it. 😞 Any ideas would be great appreciated. Tom
tomgibson365
I had an issue identical to or closely similar to the one mentioned in this thread: I couldn't use ctrl + shift + arrow keys to quickly move through and simultaneously select text. I use this a lot in word processing, so it was definitely a problem.In my case, the issue was that I had set this same combination as a keyboard shortcut in Winamp. Winamp was over-riding the default Windows shortcut. So, by changing my winamp shortcut, the default shortcut has been restored.
Obviously, if you use winamp, you will want to check this. But even if you don't, consider if you have any programs that employ these kind of custom keyboard shorcuts.
I hope this is helpful to some folks.Staplesen, you made my day. 🙂 Thank you.
I found what was eating my Shift+Ctrl+Arrows. It was a Chrome extension called Video Speed Control. It uses Shift+Ctrl+Arrows to increase/decrease videos playing in Chrome. . LOL I was wondering why the speed was usually set very fast, like 4x.
I didn't see an option in the extension to change or disable it, but will let them know they picked a very common Windows keyboard shortcut. Perhaps they can allow changing it, or actioning it only when there is video in focus and playing.
Thanks again.
tomgibson365 in my case it was the extension "Keyboard & Mouse for Xbox xCloud"
