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So I've been ousted from my Mac and put on a Windows 7 Dell Optiplex 790 at work. My Photoshop 11 acts strangely when I try to use the value fields in the adjustment layers. When I call up a Brightness or other adjustment layer, I would usually use the shift key with the up/down arrows for quick 10% moves. This worked fine on my Mac but on the Windows 7 set up it does not! As soon as I click in the value field the cursor disappears and will not stay no matter how many times I click in there. Ultimately I use the scrubber or slider to set my values. It will however work fine in the shadows/highlights window, go figure. I became so used to working with my arrow keys to input values that this has become a real nuisance for me (I know a real First World problem). I also use a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.
any ideas ? Thanks.

I just tried it (on my Windows 7 x64 system) and holding down the shift key and using the arrows causes +/- 10 unit jumps for me just fine. That's a Photoshop standard behavior across the board.
It's sounds like less a Windows vs. Mac thing, and more like something's wrong with your specific system.
Do you have any software running that watches the keyboard for special sequences - e.g., to do something to your desktop? Maybe some kind of hot key recognition in your display driver?
-Noel

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