eagle

the wife in here infinite wisdom decided to clean the keyboard on her net book
i do wish she had turned the chuffing thing off first.
so the following has now occured ..
f key goes directly to help ..
g key opens the find facility..
h key time and date are displayed ..
fn key is a back slash..
back space only goes back one at a time
found all of this all happen in notepad etc BUT if you have a password with the above letters in they wont work as the letters ..
so i presume she has switched on some form of sticky key or whatever shortcut etc. but it works with a normal keyboard attached via usb.
have tried all the obvious holding down certain keys and looking at the win 7 shortcuts ect but alas no further forward.
so for my sanity any ideas ..
thanks in advance.

RandyWanger

Not a Window$ user, but maybe the shift key is stuck down?

eagle

have tried all the obvious things to look at, did a keyboard check on notepad and that's how I realised that here was an issue.
used the shift key and it changes case all ok. I did plug a keyboard in to it via usb and all worked ok. so it does make me wonder if there is an issue with that keyboard.

Galifrey

iTrader: (3)

Do a System Restore to the time before the cleaning episode, fixed simples.

eagle

first thing I tried, went back about 3 weeks ago.. all restored ok still the same

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

Has she changed the keyboard layout/language?

LostUser

Sounds like it's the windows key that it thinks is stuck down. The one with the Windows logo on it. Normally tapping it a few times is enough to sort it out

eagle

windows key works ok with no issues..
checked the keyboard layout and is set to English uk . even changed settings and rebooted, then reset to uk and rebooted.

Torquemada

Thought it sounded more like a sticky CTRL key?

eagle

CTRL keys seem to be working ok, if I try to replicate the keystrokes on my machine no matter what I do alt or ctrl key i cant seem to get the same results, starting to think maybe the keyboard has an issue now..

Torquemada

Yeah probably right then, knackered keyboard