Windows 10: Cat jumped on my keyboard and all my shortcuts disappeared.

While I was at my desk, my cat hopped up and wanted to get attention from me. However she laid down on my keyboard and when she did all my shortcuts and files disappeared. Just the shortcuts and files. Not my folders, not my recycling bin. Just the shortcuts are gone. Below is a screenshot of everything that didnt disappear No clue what happened or where they went. Any idea as to what she might of pressed? Id rather not go through the hassle of reading ALL the shortcuts myself and also had some important text files with recovery codes on them. Any help would be great, thanks.

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unwanted keyboard shortcuts activated by my cat??

hello all,

sometimes my cat jumps on my keyboard and somehow, with her paws, she turns on features on my computer i don't even know how to toggle on purpose. just now she stepped on the keyboard and suddenly i couldn't click anything with my mouse, only alt+tab through
my open windows. i had to turn my computer off and on just to make it usable again. another time, she activated some function wherein, if i tried to type in the middle of a paragraph, it would overwrite the letter in front of it. there's more stuff, too, but
i can't describe it succinctly. i don't even know why these functions exist, is there some way i can disable the keyboard shortcuts she's pressing to activate them, so i don't have to restart and lose my work every time she steps on the keyboard? also why
are these an option at all?? please help!

p.s. i do use the app keyfreeze to lock my keyboard when i step away from my computer, but even when that app is turned on, she can still press keys to turn on airplane mode, power down my laptop, and even press the combo to turn off keyfreeze and wreak
havoc on my computer all she wants. or she just rips the keys off, lol. and she doesn't even contribute around the house, either!! ...but that's a complaint for another time.

 

Desktop shortcuts disappearing

One of the computers i maintain has a few of the desktop shortcuts disappearing now and then. It runs windows 7, and has a shitload of shortcuts on the desktop.

Any idea what might cause this?

 

How to create a shortcut for a keyboard shortcut.

Hi Marcos,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

I understand that you are willing to create Keyboard shortcut on Windows 10. I will certainly help you.

I suggest you to follow the steps in the below Microsoft article to create
a keyboard shortcut for an app.

Create keyboard shortcuts to open desktop apps

Note: The troubleshooting steps in the above link are meant for windows 8, however, you can use the same for windows 10 as well.

Refer below article for more information on Keyboard shortcuts.

Keyboard shortcuts

Please post back with above information and we will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.