You know, that annoying pop-up that appears when you press the shift key quickly several times in a row and will mostly certainly interrupt you while you play a game? Why is it enabled by default in all windows?

I was playing Grim Fandango with my sister and she enabled Filter keys by mistake by holding shift for 8 seconds, basically rendering the entire keyboard useless (and without knowing what we even enabled in the first place to google it). The only solution was to go back to the desktop and disable it with the mouse, but we were playing in fullscreen without any means of exiting without pressing ESC, so I basically had to shut down the computer and lose our progress.

I know these are intended for people with disabilities, but don't have them fucking enabled by default, let alone have them activated by the most common key for running in all computer games (a key that you will most likely hold and/or press repeatedly).

I learned my lesson and disabled both of them, these have been the bane of my existence ever since I got into PC Gaming, and I know I will stumble upon them when I install windows again and I forget to disable them.

For the same reason why Microsoft forces updates at us. They think they know better than us.

One of the major reasons why I turned off updates was because it seemed to like picking 5 minutes before closing here at the library to run its update.

All that needs to be said, really. A lot of accessibility functions are highly useful for people without disabilities - the ability to activate the on-screen keyboard at the log-in screen has helped me a lot when I haven't had access to a physical one. Sticky Keys, however, should die in a fire with its opt-out system that doesn't even work properly.

Add mouse acceleration by default to that list or even hidden in games or insidiously built into some mice.

On macOS the sticky keys just affects the modifier keys, but is off by default. There's also a setting for pressing Shift five times to activate/deactivate sticky keys mode. The settings are buried in System Preferences, not in the Keyboard settings but instead in "Accessibility" settings. Unfortunately, the mouse settings are also there, so good luck changing the mouse settings yourself since they can only be changed with the mouse!

Annoyingly, to me, the sticky keys only temporarily lock with the first press, then permanently lock with the second, then unlock with the third. So undoing an accidental temporary lock requires doing a permanent lock before unlocking, three presses total.

Frankly, I'd much rather the modifier keys always toggle permanent lock if I type them. And if I held them while using a shortcut then only temporarily lock, and of course if they were locked before I held them then unlock after releasing. Simple, and only two key presses to toggle on/off instead of three. Then they could get rid of that ridiculous Caps Lock key, too.

However, since they have not done that, then it's absolutely ridiculous to bury those settings within a pointer interface. Rather than have a setting to activate/deactivate sticky key mode, it makes more sense to me to put a key on the keyboard itself. Labeled, visible, and no need to use the mouse. But as said, I'd rather the modifier keys toggle lock themselves by default instead of the current implementation, then no need for either a setting or special key.

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One of those annoying Windows features. Aside from some already mentioned, add hiding he ending of file names (eg example instead of example.jpg).

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My laptop's touchpad keeps turning back on. Been removed from device manager but every reboot or start up, there it is.

Same here, REALLY annoying when playing some games with a mouse and I accidentally touch the touchpad while trying to hit a lot of keys on the keyboard GRRR!

oops. Never mind.

Have you tried disabling it in Device Manager and not remove it? Unless you can disable it from the BIOS, of course it's reinstalled at every boot. Depending on the laptop and touchpad software, if you have it installed (the software/program, not the driver), there may be an option to disable touchpad when a mouse is plugged in. I have on mine.

Another massive advantage of Linux. Not only is it opt in, but if I wanted, I could configure it any way I want.

But what's more, is that I'm not even limited to a single desktop style.
Do I want XFCE today, WindowMaker, OpenBox, or Gnome?

If there is only game-controlled mouse acceleration, it's ok. For example in Q3 I like to play with mildly high acceleration and pretty low sensitivity. It really improves my accuracy and reaction speed with the railgun.

It's not in BIOS. I've already checked. Thank you though for the suggestion.

The way I hold my hands, I have to lay them along the edge of the laptop. There's a spot about three inches to the left where if I put my hand down, it;s enough pressure to affect the touchpad.