I had an interesting thing happen this morning. I went to work on an Excel spreadsheet, and every time I hit the arrow keys the page would scroll around as if I was dragging the scrollbars. After a while I noticed the little "SCRL" in the lower-right-hand corner of my spreadsheet that indicates the scroll lock is turned on. This was most unusual, seeing as to how my keyboard (a Logitech MX 5000) has no scroll lock that I'm aware of. However, somehow the scroll lock managed to get turned on. Since I have no scroll lock button, I couldn't turn it off. I never did figure out
how it got turned on, but I did figure out how to turn it off using Window's built-in On Screen Keyboard. Here's what I did:
- Went to Run under the Start Menu.
- Typed "osk" (without the quotes.)
- A little window with a keyboard appears. Click the "slk" button to turn the scroll lock on and off. When it has a red border (as shown in the image) it's on. Otherwise it's off.
I hope this helps someone else out there having the same issue. If so, leave us a comment and let us know!
Labels: Tips, Windows
2 Comments:
Thank you this has been driving me crazy for an hour. Your solution is so simple, and worked instantly.
Scroll Lock Hell - is the best term. I had the same problem. Unable to move the cursor up or down right or left. The cursor would not run as it used to.
Thanks to this site I solved this problem:
steps
1] click left lower corner Start
2] In search window type osk
3] an ikon osk will appear in the upper part of the window
4] click on osk ikon and keyboard will appear
5] find key "slk" [second on the right on the top and click on it. The croll lock will be unlocked and your cursopr will run in any direction yoiu direct it wirth the up, down left & right keys
1/26/2009
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