Have you tried holding the power button in for a few seconds, maybe 3 or 4? That usually works although still not ideal but better than waiting til the battery goes flat. Also if the keys cause so much problem either try marking them with something tactile or covering them so you can't knock them at all.
At 18:09 23/02/2008, you wrote:
Hi all - No, not a personal message to any individual, but my problem with my laptop! What happens is, that I have some touch media keys across the plastic strip above the function keys on my laptop, and these trigger certain things, one of which seems to be to launch "quick Play" [or some such name] programme, that seems to hog the machine, and I lose not just JFW, but Narrator too! My attempts to reboot from using short cut keys, doesn't work, but neither does pressing the off/on button. The laptop is just sitting there, I can't turn it off! Something must be hogging the screen [maybe that media software programme thing] but I don't understand why the power button won't switch it off! Any thoughts good people? - Andy -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.0.0 - Release Date: 11/8/2004 ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1294 - Release Date: 2/22/2008 6:39 PM
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