Home Blog Archive Hardware Keyboard: A key is stuck - what to do?

Keyboard: A key is stuck - what to do?

  • Nov 13, 2025
  • 818
  • 0

A key is stuck on your keyboard, you can solve the Problem, usually with little effort. How to do this, you will learn in this practical tip.

Keyboard: A key is stuck

Before you make on the keyboard, you should be unplugging the keyboard from the PC or the Laptop to shut down. So there is no unwanted key be pressed in combination. The Laptop damage can thus be avoided.
  • In some cases, it may help to press the button several times. Gently pressing up, down, left and right of the button can solve already.
  • Have caught Sand and crumbs in the keyboard is available, turn the keyboard upside down and shaking it slightly. In the case of an external keyboard, you can do something coarser, as in the case of a Laptop keyboard.
  • Also, the vacuum cleaner is doing in this case, good services. You can vacuum the keyboard thoroughly, dust, dirt and crumbs away.
  • All this helps nothing, you need to remove the button. Put two objects on the left and to the right of the button and lever it up slightly. Here are, among other things, toothpick, tweezers, nail arrows or pocket knife. Wipe the button gently with your Finger and you put them back.
Keyboard: A key is stuck
In the next practical tip we will show you how you have a broken laptop key repair.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

0 COMMENTS

LEAVE A COMMENT

Human?
1 + 3 =