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Virtual PC: Keyboard stops working intermittently ?

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I’ve been working with Virtual PC 2004 for a while now, I’m spending almost all of my development/testing time inside various Virtual PC images so I can protect my physical PC from being cluttered up with all the technologies, code, etc. that I end up having to use.

 

However I’ve been fighting an annoying intermittent keyboard problem where the keyboard stops working inside the Virtual PC OS, Eventually I’ve figured out why it stops working. If you use Right Alt+Enter to make toggle Full Screen it triggers the keyboard to stop working. It turns out that the CTRL key is being “stuck down” inside the Virtual PC meaning the keyboard looks like it’s not responding.

 

You can prove this by pressing ESC, which brings up the Start Menu, you can clear the “stuck key” by pressing CTRL again inside the VPC, Annoying but at least gets you working again. Seems to affect all Host/Guest OS and hardware combinations so far

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2004
    Since my laptop has a "exotic" keyboardlayout, i use the rightAlt frequently for { and }, so this behaviour is a bit annoying when coding in C#...

    If someone finds a way to turn it of, I would be pleased to hear it.
  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2004
    You could try to change the HotKey in Virtual PC from Right Alt to something else. This will probably solve Your problem.
  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2004
    I've found this happens occassionally when I use Remote Desktop. It took me a while to figure out what was wrong.
  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2004
    Sorry, but couldn't figure out how to change HotKey ? Any hint ?
    This problem accurs quite often when using german keyboard-layout and trying to enter UNC-paths (backslashes). After what I found out this is only possible by unsing CTRL+ALT+ß (instead of ALTGR+ß, which is normally used, buts lock STRG as described).
  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2004
    I was having this same problem. It is a major pain, hopefully they will release a fix for this. Or at least put it in the help file, until then... Google to the rescue..
  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2004
    We've finally found a fix for this: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2004/04/22/118093.aspx
  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2004
    I don't know if this topic is active or not but here goes...

    I have my OS in Virtual PC require a password to log on. Virtual PC, as noted above, doesn't accept keyboard input sometimes. I've pressed ESC and CTRL, all to no avail. Anyone experience this problem? Any workarounds? The OS and keyboard are set up with standard American (English).
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    June 03, 2009
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