Unexpected Windows 2000 Functionality

[themidnightgirl]

"By pressing the SHIFT key five times you have turned on the StickyKeys feature. With this feature you can lock down the CTRL, ALT or SHIFT keys. This is useful if you are unable to hold down more than one key at a time."

Comments

[andrewwyld.livejournal.com]

Yes sir, Archy and Mehitabel would be a very different book these days.  but what the h dash double l

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Daft question, but are Jim and I still okay for a lift to the Shards Xmas do?

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Yeppy. You got any idea what time we're due there?

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

erm....nooooo...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Me knowing this snippet is really going to piss off my co-workers.

[spikydavid.livejournal.com]

How is this unexpected? This has been standard Windoze functionality since, um, 95, I think.

Spot the person that's never read Microsoft's GUI guidelines for developers :)

[borusa.livejournal.com]

It's not in NT 4.0, which until recently has been our standard platform...

[spikydavid.livejournal.com]

Do you not have a pc at home?

[mostlyacat.livejournal.com]

Yay and it makes a satisfying doingg sound too when the window pops up. I would have kept the thing switched on for that feature alone but I found myself playing with it too much! :-) I sometimes tap the shift key lots when I'm thinking y'see.