Comments on: Turn off Filter Keys in Windows XP and Vista

By: lindsay

lindsay — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:37:30 +0000

if the shift key for 8 sec. dont work then try this:

*** MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS SAVED BEFORE DOING THIS!!!!!! ***

*control panel
*performance and maintenance
*system restore (this might be on the side bar or in main window)
*try ‘restore my comp. to an earlier time’ & if it doesnt show you the date that it
happened then try ‘create a restore point’ and type in the month day year
ex. july 24 2008
*now everything should be working fine
**NOTE: this may work for other things to!!!

By: Joble

Joble — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:48:49 +0000

Microsoft’s accessibility features are primarilly encountered when they impare unimpared users. Obviously nobody wants to rant about them too hard because it feels unnervingly like having a go at disabled people, but what I find infuriating is the dialogue box that comes up when you hold down the shift key.

Considering you’ve just turned something on, you don’t know what it is, you’d quite reasonably assume clicking “cancel” will turn it off, or there’ll be some option in Settings, or if you could just okay out of the dialogue box and the hellish prison windows that are closing in on you would just leave you alone for five seconds and stop ruining your life and we could just go back to typewriters, inaccessible to most fully able people, it would all be fine, then you find out off some clever little website that you just have to press both shift keys and it goes away. Did the dialogue box tell you that? No, you had to search google in all caps like some angry little forum troll, I ask you, why do we continue to suffer these indignities, if the issue is not resolved immediately I will be forced to take my own life!

By: William

William — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:06:04 +0000

My kitten sat on the shift key while I was taking a shower. Filter Keys turned on and all I knew was that my keyboard didn’t work… Thanks for putting this page up!

By: Godfrey

Godfrey — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:50:17 +0000

thanks so much. pressing both shift keys is much quicker and easier

By: Tim Connor

Tim Connor — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:58:23 +0000

The info is great to turn it off but I found to actually turn it off when alrady on, hit both shift keys.

By: Xin Ying

Xin Ying — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:47:21 +0000

Thanks , no more filter keys too , YAY !

By: Kahiwa

Kahiwa — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:48:52 +0000

Thank you sooooo much!!! I was so annoyed, about to hit my poor significant other cos he couldn’t get rid of it lol!
This is such the stupidest app really, freaking microsoft.
Anyways, yay – no more filter keys!

By: Roshan

Roshan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:11:46 +0000

phew!!! thanks for the tip…. i don understand why MS don leave these options off by default…. i mean i kno that disabled people probably use ms windows too but it’s not like most users are disabled…

By: oneClick

oneClick — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:35:44 +0000

Bloody Brilliant! Who could possibly need such a debilitating feature? I canâ€™t fathom that feature making anyoneâ€™s life easier, but hey, each to his own. Thanks for the advice!

By: Millie

Millie — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:08:24 +0000

wow – it actully works by putting both shift keys down at once!