"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message news:42f652d2.23309484@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:02:41 +0100, "Paul Murphy"
> <p_murphynothanks@tospamhotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >When time permits, it would be worth performing a clean (non-upgrade)
> >install of Win 2K on the machine. Upgrade installations can often cause
> >problems that a partition deletion/recreation/format and reinstall from
> >scratch will rectify. If the Win 2K media is an upgrade CD, this can still
> >be used on an install from scratch - the installation will ask for the
> >installation media for the previous OS during the install to check validity
> >for an upgrade but this way none of the old OS is actually installed.
>
> I am going to avoid that because I simply have too much work if I do.
> I can live with the nuisance if that's what it will take to get rid of
> it.
>
> I find it hard to believe that an In-Place Upgrade would cause a
> particular sequence of keystrokes to cause the INS key to toggle. It
> is far more likely a bug (or feature) in Win2K, in which case
> reinstalling it fresh won't do any good.
>
>
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I do not think it is a bug in Windows 2000. I have three machines all different manufactures with a hodgepodge of keyboards. None do this. Now watch the next machine probably will and I'm all wet.

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George Hester
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