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CTRL key stuck in several CAT tools and Chrome

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CTRL key stuck in several CAT tools and Chrome
Poster: Anna Sarah Krämer Fazendeiro

This problem plagues me since months and has gotten worse with time. When I am using Wordfast Pro or Memsource, the CTRL key sometimes appears to get "stuck" - meaning instead of typing letters the program reads key combinations. I have sticky keys disabled and reinstalled the keyboard and the CAT tools several times. At first it seemed to be sufficient to simply press the two CTRL keys at same time for the problem to go away, and the problem anyway just appeared sometimes. I could see the keys activated on the OSK. Lately I have not been able to do any work for longer than a few minutes without this to happen, and the OSK does not show the keys as activated, but the key combinations are still being read. It only happens when using the CAT tools and once the key gets "stuck" in the CAT tool, it also gets stuck in Chrome. After some seconds or in some cases minutes everything goes back to normal.
My last attempt at fixing this was a complete Windows reinstall (I did keep my files, but might try again to reinstall without the files).
Has anyone experienced this or could give me other ideas for solutions I could try to sort this out?

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