maybe i should rephrase my answer. what i actually do is kinda bash the ctrl/alt/shift hotkeys in photoshop. by bashing em, i mean i blindly press them in different orders and combos. i have a voodoo belief that if i just press alt, it doesn’t fix it. so when i bash the keys, i’m really hitting ctrl, or ctrl-shift, or alt-shift, etc etc and trying to get all of those various key combos pressed in a second or two of me bashing the keys. i really don’t know exactly what part of that fixes it, but it does. i’ve used this fix to stop the problem 100% of the time on very many different machines, so it definitely does work. i probably should try prove what exactly it is that’s fixing it. my assumption was that itw was just the fact that alt would be pressed and released in photoshop was what fixed it, but you’re saying it didn’t fix it on your machine, so who knows exactly what it is. maybe alt needs to be pressed and released twice? maybe it needs to be pressed with ctrl or shift or both? i’m not sure.