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1sie

Help. Win and browser(s) auto refresh + date and time auto text input.

Help

My Win10 PC is unusable. It's been happening for 3 days now.

I boot up, and sometimes it's almost immediately, others times may take a little while, but sure enough it eventually starts auto refreshing the web browser (be it chrome, opera, edge), the taskbar or any window become unresponsive, and if I open notepad it will spew out timestamps in this format: 27-Feb-193:20, at the rate of about 4 a second. Reebooting is the only short lived way to make it stop.

I did full scans for viruses, malware. Checked disks for errors. Made sure windows+all drivers are updated. I browsed around since auto refresh seems to be a common issue, and the solutions range from scanning disks to disabling certain appearance/theme settings, to actually what is my top search result which is, disabling windows error report :/ Thats the only one I haven't tried and that I'd really like to avoid :) Also would really like to avoid restore/rollbacks cause of the mountain of software Id have to reinstall.

Anyone out there with some light on this? Thanks

Posted Feb 27, 2019, 3:39 PM UTC

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sn0wf1ake1•

Have you tried with another keyboard or switching USB port?

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1sieOP•

Even unpluging the keyboard doesn't do it.

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DerkvanL•

Something is happening with F5-key, or your keyboard input. F5 is browser refresh, and pressing F5 in notepad, gives you a timestamp.

Did you map the F5 key to a mouse button? Do you have a controller of some kind connected?

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1sieOP•

That was my first thought, in fact the first thing i did was unplug the keyboard, but i keep getting the input.

I never mapped F5 to anything, i do however have a racing the wheel under the desk that was connected in the back. Haven´t used in months but i disconnected it now to see if it helps.

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DerkvanL•

Did it work?

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1sieOP•

Sadly not. I'm through with this shit. I'm formatting today. Tnx anyway.

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JLN450•

does the problem happen in safe mode?
You can try a keylogger to see what keys are being pressed.

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1sieOP•

I believe not. Though to be honest I'm not sure if I tested long enough cause sometimes the problem can take up to a few hours to manifest. I will try the keylogger and maybe leave the pc on over night in safe mode. Tnx

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