Windows 10: My backspace key keeps deleting until I press another button.

Whenever I press the backspace key it keeps deleting until I press another key. I'm on PC and the problem was there before I updated my laptop but it's 10x worse and happens pretty much every time since I updated it last night.

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Pressing Backspace deletes a letter from left as well as from right

When I press the backspace button, anything on either side starts to delete as it would normally. So if I have to correct something and I press backspace it deletes a letter to the left and the right each time I press it

***Modified title from: Backspace button***

 

E71 - where is the DELETE key? (Not backspace key)

actually, if you hold down the 'shift' key & press 'backspace', it deletes!

 

Ctrl + A + Backspace acting as home key

I think you lost a character in the question, about what shows up in Notepad.

When I tried Ctrl+A+Backspace in Notepad, I got the same results as pressing Ctrl-Backspace. (This did generate a character that looked like a thin, tall rectangle.)

I can suggest three approaches:

• Try altering your behavior. Use Ctrl-A and Delete, instead of Ctrl-A and Backspace.
  
• Try a different keyboard. (This may ultimately end up having the effect of altering your behavior a bit. Another possible effect is to eliminate ghosting issues that may occur when too much is pressed simultaneously on some keyboards. Although I'm suspecting that your current issue is unrelated to keyboard ghosting.)
  
• Use the downloaded software AutoHotkey to respond to Ctrl-Backspace by having it automatically press Ctrl-A and then either Backspace or Delete. Hopefully the software will be responsive enough to be able to complete its actions before Windows processes your next keystroke.