Vista os problems

Life Technology
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I am about to donate my laptop to somebody who lives in a small village in Africa, but something has just gone wrong with my software. The os is Vista. I need to fix it, otherwise she won’t be able to use or to get it fixed herself. I’ve noticed the following problems:

  1. the icons on desktop overlap
  2. whenever I click on one of the icons on desktop, all of them are highlighted and open one after the other.
  3. when I click on one item on a list within a folder, that item and all the items above it are also highlighted
  4. hyperlinks in Word don’t work
  5. ctrl functions don’t work, I tried ctrl f/search function, and all I see is the letter “f” typed on the document

I have already done a system restore, but the problem hasn’t been solved.
I guess all these problems have a single cause, but I’m not certain.
Please, please help me!

Thanking you in anticipation of some good advice!

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Any ideas yet? Thanks.

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Sounds to me like your keyboard is bad.

Like one or more of the keys is stuck. Try tapping each one a couple of times, especially the Ctrl, Alt, Shift keys, etc.

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did it get wet at some point?

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[quote=“irishstu”]Sounds to me like your keyboard is bad.

Like one or more of the keys is stuck. Try tapping each one a couple of times, especially the Ctrl, Alt, Shift keys, etc.[/quote]

I think you’re right. The control key seems to be stuck. I’ve been trying my best to clear it, no luck thus far.