All very OT, but FWIW, I'm pretty sure the Apple Extended Keyboard sold with the Mac II was the first one (for Mac) with the control key in its present position.

Also, there is a utility called DoubleCommand that can remap your Mac keyboard so that command goes onto the control key such that your keyboard shortcuts are the same at home and at work. I've never tried it but I know some people who use it. I know when I do use Windows, I am forever accidentally calling up the Start menu, lol...

Hi there,

I am experiencing the same problem. I have reset the preferences in InDesign CS4 4 times now and the issue keeps coming back up. It is a major pain to have to reset the preferences every half hour, is there a permanent solution to this problem?

None of these fixes work on my computer any longer...

I used to be able to keep note pad open and click into it and return to ID to work and things would go along happily... the software seemed especially sensitive to switching between the internet and the program itself (going between would cause the hot keys to shut off).

I've tried deleting prefs

I've deleted the back-up folder in Apps

I'm scared to uninstall and reinstall the software since last time I attempted this my entire system needed to be reinstalled. It looks like I won't have a choice however...

Anyone successfully uninstall and reinstall InDesign?

I dragged and dropped them to the desktop and restarted the application. This fixed my dialog box problem, however now there is not response to any keyboard inputs except within a text box for typing.  This has disabled all hot keys and the ability to delete items.

Oh and I also did that key holding while starting up... got the question if I wanted to reset my prefs, agreed... still not a fix.

I suspect at this point I'm looking at an uninstall of EVERYTHING in safe mode and an attempted reinstall.

Last time the adobe software flaked on me I had to reinstall Windows. I'm slowing getting to that point.

No third party items with InDesign, the only extra plugin is in Photoshop and that's been there a few weeks now.  Also no font managmenent widgets/plugins.

I haven't played with the video card accelleration... I may check that out next.

The only other thing I can think of is a newly installed Quickbooks online back-up utility which I may try to uninstall and restart and see how that works. At the moment I'm going through and backing everything off the hard drive just in case. The computer is really taxed and when trying to work, the previews on screen are really wacky. Other applications are starting to go with the InDesign. Illustrator quit unexpectedly and so did Photoshop.

I assume since I purchased and downloaded the suite together that there's no way to individually install and uninstall InDesign.  Is that correct?

I had 36 gig but I've been moving things off to externals so now I'm looking at 90 gigs now... gonna dip into safe mode (the graphics card didn't work out) and remove ID...

drum roll...

That was a no-go. Error uninstalling ID in safemode. ID was not uninstalled. Next step is the removal and reinstallation of the entire suite... I suspect it won't go smoothly and I'll likely need to redo windows.  I'll keep you posted.

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If you're using Vista on a PC I think by now the keyboard thing is a known issue - I hope they fix it. CS3 never had that problem and when I called to report the error I was told I was the only one (this was last fall). My quick solution that allowed me to keep working despite the glitch was to have note pad handy. The keyboard will work again if you click once into any notepad file. You don't even have to type anything.

If you're beyond the point where that would help... I wouldn't know what to tell you.

I ended up having to reinstall my entire computer. Once ID started to go down, everything went including Photoshop and Illustrator. An uninstall of the adobe suite failed miserably and so reinstalling the suite was no longer an option.

2 Days later I am *almost* back up.

I've been having this problem alot, particularly in indesign.

It feels alot more like a bug in the indesign software than windows or anything else.  When I use to the direct selection tool to select a point or multiple points to edit a path, my keyboard stops responding to all entirely in indesign.  Even after I select another object.  It works fine on everything else  runnong on my computer though.

I've found that a good way to get the response back from the keyboard is to go up to edit and hit undo to go back to where you edited the path last and the keyboard became unresponsive.  Once you undo that last path edit, it works fine.  You then have to go back and redraw the path edit, but you can use the keyboard again.

This seems to pop up like every 15 minutes or so when your dealing with lots of paths and is VERY frustrating.

Has anyone found a serious fix to this though?  Is there any hope of a patch or anything coming out?