windows 10 Writing to USB causes anomalous keyboard inputs

[Guest Philip Pavlick]

For the past couple of months my personal Windows 10 laptop, which is about 3 and a half years old now, has been displaying very strange behavior while performing what is, for me, a fairly routine task. I've been at a loss to articulate this behavior, much less explain it, so I've been doing observations to gather more detailed information and try to make it consistent, and I think I've mostly figured out how to recreate the behavior but I still don't know what's causing it.Important information: I use a USB keyboard rather than my laptop's built-in keyboard for personal reasons. Because my

 

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