So I have an HP laptop that is a few years old: 4 gb RAM, 500 GB hard drive, and 2.40 processor, Windows 8.
For maybe a week or so now, my laptop suddenly started pressing the arrow keys randomly on its own - namely, the up arrow. I figured the key was stuck, but as many times as I took the keys apart, or even disabled the up key entirely using keytweak, it still would sometimes fly up the screen as if I were holding the key down.
I scanned my laptop with antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-spyware and it still hasn't gone away. It's even making typing this hard because my cursor keeps flying back to the beginning of the message.
It has mostly been the up arrow, and it only does it sometimes. Sometimes, if I press other arrows or fiddle with the keys, it will stop or at least pause. And it will often be doing it in some apps and not others. For example, I could have a game open where my character will be constantly running up, and I could switch to my browser and it's perfectly fine. Then, back to the game and it's flying through the menus on its own. Even if I have two browsers open or just different tabs on the same browser, one will constantly be scrolling up and the next will be perfectly fine.
I've looked around and haven't found a good solution aside from things like stuck keys or overactive mouse or viruses, but I don't know that it's any as even with no mouse it does it. I ran all my virus programs and it wasn't that, and it still does it even if I disable the up key. I have no wireless keyboard, a wireless mouse but it does it regardless of the mouse being connected or off and disconnected. It's very annoying.
Any ideas? Thank you!
For maybe a week or so now, my laptop suddenly started pressing the arrow keys randomly on its own - namely, the up arrow. I figured the key was stuck, but as many times as I took the keys apart, or even disabled the up key entirely using keytweak, it still would sometimes fly up the screen as if I were holding the key down.
I scanned my laptop with antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-spyware and it still hasn't gone away. It's even making typing this hard because my cursor keeps flying back to the beginning of the message.
It has mostly been the up arrow, and it only does it sometimes. Sometimes, if I press other arrows or fiddle with the keys, it will stop or at least pause. And it will often be doing it in some apps and not others. For example, I could have a game open where my character will be constantly running up, and I could switch to my browser and it's perfectly fine. Then, back to the game and it's flying through the menus on its own. Even if I have two browsers open or just different tabs on the same browser, one will constantly be scrolling up and the next will be perfectly fine.
I've looked around and haven't found a good solution aside from things like stuck keys or overactive mouse or viruses, but I don't know that it's any as even with no mouse it does it. I ran all my virus programs and it wasn't that, and it still does it even if I disable the up key. I have no wireless keyboard, a wireless mouse but it does it regardless of the mouse being connected or off and disconnected. It's very annoying.
Any ideas? Thank you!
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