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Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?

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On-screen keyboards can be very handy if your keyboard goes wonky, particularly if you've got the sort that lights up which modifier keys are pressed. Knowing that your left-side control key is flickering is really handy for explaining intermittent issues with, say, copy-paste.

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