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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog speeds with & without shift / control; profiles
« on: October 08, 2018, 08:30:53 PM »
Okay so actually we found the solution to our issue today. Well it was a dumb thing; this post is just for the benefit of anybody else later on that runs into this situation.
It turned out, that for some reason, our new Windows 7 computer was booting up with "Num Lock" turned on. So the numeric pad keys did nothing without Shift pressed (since windows was getting numbers instead). With Shift pressed, the numeric pad keys then I suppose were outputting the codes for the arrow directions, making jog work at slow speed.
Our keyboard has no "Num Lock" light, so there was no easy way to know. We decided today to start up the Win7 on-screen keyboard to check, and sure enough Num Lock was set.
I know we ran into this issue once before a year or two ago, and it ended up mysteriously fixing itself, without me ever understanding why it happened, or why it got better.
Well maybe I have learned something today!
Thanks again--
--dave
It turned out, that for some reason, our new Windows 7 computer was booting up with "Num Lock" turned on. So the numeric pad keys did nothing without Shift pressed (since windows was getting numbers instead). With Shift pressed, the numeric pad keys then I suppose were outputting the codes for the arrow directions, making jog work at slow speed.
Our keyboard has no "Num Lock" light, so there was no easy way to know. We decided today to start up the Win7 on-screen keyboard to check, and sure enough Num Lock was set.
I know we ran into this issue once before a year or two ago, and it ended up mysteriously fixing itself, without me ever understanding why it happened, or why it got better.
Well maybe I have learned something today!
Thanks again--
--dave