It's an accessibility thing. If you can't press two keys at once, then you can turn it on and press the modifier key, then the active key.

Sticky keys is it so that when you press the modifier keys (control, shift, alt/option and win/meta/super/command), you won't need to hold them in order to activate a keyboard shortcut.

It's an accessibility feature designed to make it easier for people who may have trouble using a keyboard to activate keyboard shortcuts.

As a tetraplegic person, sticky keys are my lifesaver. I can only push one button at a time on my keyboard. Thanks to sticky keys, I can write grammatically correct and use key combinations.

That's what sticky keys is made for. Normally, it shouldn't be active on default though, on my computers it never was. I always had to turn it on.

Fun fact: A common way to get access to SYSTEM (higher than admin) privileges on Windows is the sethc exploit, where you replace sethc (the program that shows the sticky keys dialog) with command prompt, and it gets started as SYSTEM, the only thing needed is write access to System32, which can either be from an admin account or by editing the file system externally. This also allows opening a command prompt on the login screen, allowing some cursed things, like if you start explorer.exe on the login screen it combines the desktop and login screen.

Is this a windows joke I'm too linux to understand?

I can’t remember the last time I had a sticky keys issue.

However, Win10 randomly deciding to background/minimize my game for absolutely no reason is definitely a thing. Nothing like having to alt-tab back into your game to find yourself dead when you stopped moving in the middle of a firefight.

As someone who has had shitty laptop keyboards with fucked up keyboards. I got some actual use out of the feature throughout the years and I have to say it's quite nice.

Tell me OP is 14 years old without telling me OP is 14 years old.

Would you like to enable sticky keys?

A similar thing I've run into where a feature that usually wouldn't get activated much gets in the way because of games making you input weird patterns is the Windows language swap hotkey, alt-shift. I play a game that uses alt and shift a lot, and involves quite a bit of typing, so I kept getting confused why my language was suddenly different. Took me ages to find out why.

I don't know that there's a point to them, so much as I just lose all motivation and fall straight to sleep after finishing my porn sessions.

Can someone finally explain to me what sticky keys mean?