[thelist] Keyboard breakdown

[Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns]

Peter-Paul,

I'll throw in three possibilities that I've experienced with unusual 
assortments of letters and keyboard peculiarities just in case one of them 
helps.

In Windows 98SE if you have too many fonts installed, strange things can 
occur like this with your keyboard, too. Uninstalling some of the fonts and 
getting the number down can be one solution if that's the cause. It 
especially shows up with strange replacements of letters in browser windows 
but also does it with the keyboard. Strange indeed.

I have a wireless keyboard for my main computer, and I notice that if 
something dense comes between the keyboard and the little receiver that it 
will type strange keys. At first thought the battery was getting low in the 
keyboard, but that wasn't the case. Moving the keyboard or the dense object 
is a simple fix.

Low memory on the computer can also occasionally cause this problem. Of 
course, restarting (warm boot) or sometimes a full shutdown and starting it 
again (cold boot) of the computer fixes that.

Warmly,
Shirley
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At 02:30 PM 06/11/2001, ppk wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Coming home just now and eagerly starting up my computer to read the
>interesting mails about the Netscape article, I found out that my keyboard 
>had fouled up completely. For some reason it doesn't recognize some of the 
>keys I hit and makes them other keys (F, for instance, becomes Caps Lock). 
>Sometimes it refuses any input and seems to think Alt is pressed all the time.
>
>I didn't change anything, except for uninstalling IE5.5 a few days ago
>(without any problems, until now). Fortunately my old Win 3.1 computer is 
>still available, so I started it up and am now typing this mail.
>
>Does anyone have the faintest idea what's going on and how to solve this?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>ppk