Why does my computer beep when i type <shift>-DE quickly?

Posted by Bedwyr Humphreys on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Bedwyr Humphreys
Published on 2010-01-05T22:27:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 20:11 UTC
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I'm writing a report on developing EJBs in Jdeveloper and every time i type "IDE" my laptop beeps twice in quick succesion.

Actually, whilst typing this I've worked out that any combination of shift plus two adjacent keys, one from the row that starts qwerty and one from the row that starts asdfg will beep.

It's really quite annoying. It's a hp laptop.

Anyone know how I can make it stop?

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