Is there any point to sticky keys?

[Aerozord]

A few times, especially while gaming I get this message asking if I wanted to turn them on, which from once clicking ok I learned is a horrible ideal. So I wanted to know is there ever a reason you'd actually want it on or is it windows version of the middle finger?

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

A few times, especially while gaming I get this message asking if I wanted to turn them on, which from once clicking ok I learned is a horrible ideal. So I wanted to know is there ever a reason you'd actually want it on or is it windows version of the middle finger?

Control panel, Ease of access, Keyboard settings.
Set up Sticky Keys, second option down is toggling Sticky Keys when the button is hit 5 times. Turn it off.

[Osterbaum]

What are sticky keys? Does anyone have a translation for that in finnish?

e: google translate isn't giving me anything sensible

[Eltargrim]

It basically acts as a one-time toggle for shift; you turn sticky keys on, hit shift, release shift, hit a letter, and lo and behold it's capitalized.

[phil_]

It basically acts as a one-time toggle for shift; you turn sticky keys on, hit shift, release shift, hit a letter, and lo and behold it's capitalized.http://www.techandlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/caps-lock.jpg

I'm using an image because I keep typing words and they are all wrong.

Ok, ok, maybe if you only had one finger or you used a pencil in your teeth to type, and the next letter after that first letter wasn't capitalized, you would have saved a keystroke. But, I mean, who would think to program that? Wouldn't that be in Universal Access or whatever that's called on Windows? Why does it pop up when you're playing Mega Man? Playing Mega Man kinda demonstrates that you are perfectly capable of pressing more than one button, regardless of if you have multiple digits.

[Eltargrim]

Capital letters are just the easiest example. Try to use caps lock to get a #, $, %, etc. Won't work. Needs shift.

And it is a part of Universal Access. Windows doesn't know that the program you're running is a game, it just knows that rapidly pressing shift a number of times is a sign that maybe you're fucking up with the use of shift. Besides, I don't even know if it's still an issue in 7; the last time I remember seeing Sticky Keys pop up without looking for it was in XP.

[Osterbaum]

I'm using windows 7, playing DEFCON and pressed shift several times in a row. "Do you want to turn on sticky keys!?"

[Eltargrim]

Whelp still a thing in 7. Turn it off I guess?

[Fifthfiend]

Yeah sticky keys are atrocious, or at least sticky keys being activated the way they are is atrocious.

That shit used to fuck me up in TF2 like nothin' until I figured what the shitting christ was going on. (THANKS SYNK!)

[Osterbaum]

Just had a good game of DEFCON, but couldn't say anything to my fellow players because I guess seeing if sticky keys are a thing on Windows 7 somehow fucked up my ability to type in game or something.

I don't know, I blame sticky keys.

[akaSM]

Once, I used Sticky keys to recover a PC with a lost password...and that's the only good thing Sticky Keys has EVER done for me.

[Aerozord]

Once, I used Sticky keys to recover a PC with a lost password...and that's the only good thing Sticky Keys has EVER done for me.

ok I need to know how you managed that because it sounds like the set up for some kind of modern feat of adventuring

[Aldurin]

If you have sticky keys then you need to change some habits.

And get a new keyboard.

Probably a new mouse while you're at it.

[akaSM]

Once, I used Sticky keys to recover a PC with a lost password...and that's the only good thing Sticky Keys has EVER done for me.

Basically, it involves using the windows installation disk, to make a copy of cmd.exe, name that copy whatever the sticky keys' exe is called, and do some shenanigans in the command line thing to reset the password. There should be a tutorial somewhere online :3

If you have sticky keys then you need to change some habits.

And get a new keyboard.

Probably a new mouse while you're at it.

Are the issues caused by sticky keys worse than those caused by cheetosdustinthekeys keys?

[Aerozord]

Basically, it involves using the windows installation disk, to make a copy of cmd.exe, name that copy whatever the sticky keys' exe is called, and do some shenanigans in the command line thing to reset the password. There should be a tutorial somewhere online :3


then technically it wasn't "sticky keys" that was useful as much as you needed some executable command you wouldn't mind losing. so it was only useful because it was so useless

[akaSM]

It was sticky keys ability to be used pretty much everywhere that allowed this, it works even in the "repair windows" thing.

[Aerozord]

It was sticky keys ability to be used pretty much everywhere that allowed this, it works even in the "repair windows" thing.

so out of all the possible commands that could be used universally, they decided it should be "sticky keys"?