Any Alt + Shft key combination freezes Photosop CS4

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Stovo
Jan 19, 2009
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Any key combination that also involves simultaneously pressing the alt and shft keys freezes Photoshop CS4 on my WinXP laptop. Is this a known bug or peculiar to my system? Killing all unnecessary processes running in the background doesn’t help, so it doesn’t seem to be a software conflict. Other than remapping all the relevant shortcut keys is there anyway to solve this problem?

And how would I go about remapping the ctrl + shf + alt + e key combo. I’ve looked for it in under Edit\Keyboard Shortcuts\Layer but can’t seem to locate it.

Thanks.
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Chris_Cox
Jan 19, 2009
I heard of another person having a similar problem, and they tracked it to a system control panel that was monitoring (and eating) keystrokes.
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Stovo
Jan 20, 2009
Thanks for the tip Chris. Yes, it seems to be a software conflict after all. Running Photoshop in Safe Mode (something that should have occcured to me earlier), the alt – shft problem disappears. Now it’s just a matter of trying to isolate the culprit. Once I’ve found it, I’ll post the solution.
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Jan 27, 2009
Check to see if your video driver is monitoring for hotkeys. If you have nVidia driver, disable screen rotation.
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Gener
Jan 27, 2009
Michael,

That exact same thing is going on with the intel 965 driver also. In my case,it disabled the esc key when I launched CS4. I have to disable either the hotkeys or screen rotation.

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