Press Shift key 5 times

What happens when you press Shift key 5 times

 

What is Shift key?

As we all know shift keys in our keyboard are use to type capital letters or other alternative upper characters. Suppose we want to type "A" or "@" then we have to press and hold the shift key and press "a" or "2" keys to get the "A" or "@" characters. 

IF the Caps Lock is enabled in our key board press and hold and press letter key will gave the lower case of that letter. (Not in OS X).

In Windows environment if we press and hold the shift key and press delete button while selecting a file or folder, the file or folder will delete without moving to recycle bin.

Shift key 5 times

In Windows environment have you ever tried to press the shift key five times? If so you may got a dialog box as follows

As the texts in the picture shows, when pressed the shift key five times it Turn on Sticky Keys. When Sticky keys turned on we can use some keyboard key combination shortcuts with pressing one key at a time.

Example - for cut we use Ctrl + x. But if we enable sticky keys we can press Ctrl and release it and then press the x key which gives the same result.

In the next article I will show you how to use this sticky key application in Windows XP to reset its login password. I mean hack the Windows XP password.