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Find Bar-ctl+F- appears in Browser& Apps with any First keystroke
All of a sudden , I have had this irritating spontaneous opening of the find bar on the bottom of the window, in IE11 , Firefox and , even in Windows Explorer, but the whole window for search comes up , 3 or 4 at a time all blinking on the task bar. I have no idea what is triggering this off. i checked the registry to see what the triggers were and followed a few tips but there was nothing other than x-key or F3 key disable.
I do not use hotkeys as a rule. maybe the ctl x, ctl v at most. i am not a nimble typist beyond the basic keyboard and tend to use right click and extended context menu.
I have to use 'esc' or as soon as i enter the first letter into any type able area- URL, google/multiple search bar any window top search or find bar, and in any type able area in browsers there is an immediate find of the page i am on highlighting every single letter i had entered, if it is a long site or document the thing scrolls and loops. I can stop it with the esc key. but so far, not been able to determine how i got the whole thing started.
I know i was mad at my sticky keys on the keyboard and did some adolescent things to the keys, as if it were a piano playing Beethoven's 5th or some other hard rock chords that must have included multi keys alt, ctl, windows , shift and maybe an Fkey and definitely another 3 letter keys
it must have been in this incident of acting out on the key board that i enabled the instant pop up of the find , it used to appear , as it should, with a ctl+F on the bottom of my browser page to search for a letter, word or whole title. I looked into IE 11 to make certain i had the search options set up properly, I did. I looked into Firefox to make sure i had the proper disabling checked and in Outlook /Hotmail : it was disabled. only thing is , it is not disabled in practice.
If anyone else has encountered this issue, I would appreciate any suggestions at all, actual or theoretical
I am continuing to go through my many , many extensions in Firefox. but this thing is all pervasive. crosses over. while it is only that one , first entry that triggers off the search: after i click on 'esc' it is over. i can then type normally without fear of the 'find' popping up and taking focus. until the next reboot of browser
after years worth of trouble free use, i created this.
I use 'Super-Anti-Spyware' and keep it updated, Malwarebytes also updated, CCleaner as well as tune up utilities in conjunction with my ISP free edition of McAfee suite I get with my bundle level or internet speed level. I first thought this was a mal ware thing but nothing shows up with all those things doing their respective things routinely and nothing else seems to be off. I think i set this off to do exactly what it is doing. only i dont want it. I use no other 'accessibility' features either-all are unchecked where appropriate.
thanks
John