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I have a keyboard SK - 8165 Alienware. Press right shift has become hard to push and will sometimes cause a being wrongly lowercase letters and other problems of course. I tried to remove the key and clean under it and resetting, with no luck.

You might think a wrong key is not a big problem, but it is. Especially with such a large key. It's annoying enough to make me want to a new keyboard.

Is there anything I can try to do to fix this?

Better in this position in the Alienware owners Club Forum, here:

http://en.community.Dell.com/Owners-Club/Alienware/default.aspx

Bev.

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