On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:08:47 -0500, Art Todesco <>
wrote:
>On 1/2/2012 9:09 AM, Art Todesco wrote:
>> On 1/1/2012 5:11 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
>>> I view hundreds of photos using Windows 7 Photo Viewer.
>>>
>>> This I do by using the keyboard left and right arrow keys.
>>>
>>> Often the this stalls in that continued pressing of the arrow keys
>>> nothing happens and I am reduced to using the mouse to click on the
>>> arrow buttons at the bottom of Photo Viewer's screen. After doing
>>> this once I can go back to the keyboard arrow keys, but this soon
>>> stalls again.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug; because it never happened with XP?
>>>
>>> Peter
>> Sorry,, no answer, but I seem to have the same problem. I just tried it
>> now and can't seem to make it happen on demand. I even tried right arrow
>> super fast, which in the past, seems to do it, but not this time. I'll
>> keep reading to see if someone comes up with an answer.
>Well, I just reproduced the problem and found out why it is happening,
>at least in my case. Apparently, while hitting the right and left arrow
>keys, I fat fingered the down arrow. Windows 7 Photo Viewer then seems
>to lock out all further keyboard commands. Once you use the mouse to
>advance, the arrows again work.
Thanks, I'll check this out. I have one of those hair-trigger
keyboards where the slightest brush will set off a key.
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