Whenever i use the Shift or apple key

my mac wants to eject a CD. it makes a clicking noise and the eject cd sign appears. very annoying.
any suggestions before i have to walk to the genious bar hi hi.. (transit strike in nyc)

I answer my question myself. I had the handicapped settings enabled. You can switch to normal by pressing shift 5 times. Doh!
Thanks nice person from the genious bar!

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Whenever i use the Shift or apple key my mac wants to eject a CD

even though there is no cd in the drive. so i can't really write in caps anymore. cause whenever i use shift it makes this eject cd click noise...
i did a hardware test and everything seems normal. i also looke in the support db no one seems to have had the same problem.
can anyone help me?

I have no idea what's going on there but if I were you i would take it back to the apple store. is it still under warranty ?

I have a Macbook Air with Mountain Lion..I upgraded to the latest version called Mavericks OX now it crashes a lot...when I use the shift key especially I now have version 10.9

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HT1338 My MacBook Pro (running Leopard 10.5.8) won't allow keyboard to type an upper case 'C' using the shift key...works fine with caps lock, or, with my Typinator workaround using double-typed lower case c (not always best). Any ideas?

My MacBook Pro keyboard won't type an upper case 'C' using the shift key... only with caps lock. Workaround has been to use Typinator by typing a double lower case c, not always the best solution. Mac is a refurbished model, which initially was fine. Apple tech helped me correct the quirk when it first appeared, but now it has returned and refuses fixes. Any ideas?

I'm willing to bet that this has something to do with iCloud. I've been facing a frozen computer nearly every time I go into it.
In Activity Monitor I have seen two programs associate with iCloud that take up about 2.5 GB of memory (I only have 4 in the computer) -- causing everything to freeze. One of these is called "iCloud Helper" and the other one is something like "Address Book Sync helper" -- I see parts of these names in the stuff you have posted.
I am at my wits' end with these and have written to Apple asking them to do away with these or fix them. To get rid of the Address book sync thing I have gone into system preferences for iCloud and unchecked Contacts -- but then spontaneously it gets rechecked. And oftentimes after I Force Quit the iCloud helper, it spontaneously turns on again. My conclusion --- the iCloud is basically unusable. It turns a Mac into the most useless, clogged, sluggish PC. If this is happening to a lot of people's computers -- and I see no reason why yours or mine should be an exception -- these programs just might destroy Apple itself.
So -- I'm about to completely give up on iCloud, and I suspect that others will too unless this gets fixed.
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Hello vinoth1986,
After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help in this situation. It contains a number of troubleshooting steps and helpful advice concerning update issues:
If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD

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Basically when I try and use the shift key I keep getting this bar come up on the bottom of my screen and begins typing my text in there. Even when I close the bar and press the shift key again it still appears; I'm not sure how I can stop it from happening or how to disable it. It's getting frustrating not being able to type properly- I have to use the caps lock key for capitals.
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When you press it, what speaks and what does it say?
Mine does not do that. Not on my portables nor desktop
Macs. So I wonder what else may be happening.
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