![]() To restore your regular colors, use the magnifier feature, which has an option for turning on color inversion, and thus restoring your screen colors, says AJ Santos, owner of technology services company TechOTG in Orlando, Florida. Your cat has somehow inverted the colors on your screen. In this case, simply tapping on the increase brightness key will restore your screen, he says. (It is reassuring to know that even IT specialists have that moment of bewilderment when faced with trying to determine just what their cat did to cause whatever is happening on their computers.) When his cat, Butterscotch, interfaced with his keyboard and his screen went black, he didn’t know what happened at first. Marcel has experienced this situation firsthand. Your screen goes black What do you do when suddenly faced with a black computer screen? Photography ©Oleksandr Briagin | Getty.Ī blackened or darkened screen is likely caused by your cat hitting the decrease brightness key, says Marcel Vachon, owner of CIO Main Street, a tech consulting company based in Maine. To fix it, you need to hit the Ctrl, Alt (Option) and Up Arrow keys all at the same time. Your screen will flip in the direction of whichever arrow key your cat lands on. ![]() It happens when your cat miraculously hits the Ctr, Alt (Option) and one of the arrow keys all at the same time. This is probably the most common cat-caused IT problem, say IT support specialists. Mac users will have to manually enable it.) 2. (This feature is enabled by default in Windows but not on Macs. You should hear four beeps, and the sticky keys feature should turn off. To fix this in Windows, says Jaco, tap the shift key five times. It’s caused by hitting (or in this case, probably sitting on) the shift key five times in a row. ![]() This insanity is caused by “sticky keys” says Jaco Toledo Gerrish, a systems engineer with a technology blog at. Your text appears in all capital letters or it randomly highlights or even disappears, and your windows keep minimizing. In order to help the countless human companions of cats with the anxiety and sheer panic caused by IT - dare I say it? - cat-tastrophes - here are the four most common cat-related IT mishaps and their simple solutions. (Just a thought: This could be how cats will execute their world domination plan.) That’s a lot of potential for cat-related IT mishaps. According to the most recent pet owner’s survey of the American Pet Products Association, 47.1 million households in the United States have at least one cat. There are IT support forums all over the internet tackling requests like mine.
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