My TAB key is bringing up live.com or windows help.

For the last couple days, my TAB key is poradically doing weird things.
Sometimes it acts normal, other times it does not.  I usually notice it when I am composing an e-mail in Windows Live Mail.
Instead of bringing focus to the next field (like going from
TO: to Subject, or from Subject to the body) it opens an IE window and opens to live.com.  If I already have an IE window open, it just opens a tab to live.com.
If I am not in Windows live mail, and hit TAB, It brings up the Winows Help and Support box. 
This is VERY frustrating as TAB is something you use a lot.
For the record:
I am using Windows 7 with IE 9.
Also...it is NOT sitcky keys or any accessibility settings.
I have checked.  It is also NOT a keyboard problem as I switched two other keyboards in and the other two had the same problem.  I have run deep scans with MS Security Essentials and Emisoft scanner
and nothing was found.  Last night I did a system restore to the earliest point I had and the problem went away.  But when I turned my computer on today (and possibly when Windows updated itself?) it came back.
What could be causing this?

Solutions to the Problem My TAB key is bringing up live.com or windows help.


Hi hunterdust,
1.      Does it happens only with Internet Explorer or with any other application?
2.      What happens when you use Tab key in Microsoft Word or with notepad?
Perform the following troubleshooting methods:
Method 1:
Set the computer to clean boot and check how it works.
To set the computer in clean boot, follow the steps from the following link:
How to perform a clean boot   
Note: After checking in clean boot, follow step: 7 from the article to reset the computer to normal boot.
Method 2:
If that doesn’t work, I would suggest you to perform System File Check to fix corrupted system files.
Refer the following link to perform System File Check.
How to use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7
Note: It may ask for windows DVD to fix and to enable SFC to make more than minor repairs.
Some files saved on your computer might get deleted when fixing corrupted files.


Click here to download the registry repair application


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