HELP - Keyboard settings all changed, can't type on laptop!!! :-(

[looneytune]

Hi

I remote assisted my mum earlier (via MSN messenger) and ever since, my keyboard has been funny.

It was fine when I was just 'looking' at her computer but then when I took control and then disconnected, I could no longer type properly. By this I mean that the letter L is a number 6 instead, other letters are other numbers or symbols etc. It just doesn't make any sense. So, I can't email or type a post on MN from my laptop

Any idea's???

I've tried to update the keyboard driver but it's saying mine is fine. I've checked the keyboard settings and they are still 'English' and the Regional settings/languages are still 'English'. Run out of ideas! Also, can't understand how remote assistance can do this???

HELP!!

TIA

Sounds like your number lock is on.

You bloomin star!!! I didn't think of that as most letters still worked.

Thanks SOOOOOOOO much

Must admit i was surprised too You learn something new everyday eh!

The teachers at school keep doing this with their laptops - I've shown one of them about 4 times, but they still keep doing it .......

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I still don't know how it happened though, I deffo didn't press it!!

That's what the teachers always say looneytune - I don't know how it happens either tbh - I just know how to fix it!

Mum reckons some programs can interfere or something and that because i was linked to her machine, something obviously set it off. Anyway, thanks again, I would NEVER have thought of that!

i was once FURIOUS with a friend. (and it was my own fault really for being so daft!).

earlier in the day we had caught her dd really bashing my keyboard and later that night i couldn't type. any key i pressed, did strange things, opened windows and it was basically buggered. i had got that horrible "ooh i know she's a toddler, and mine's exactly the same but i am sooo annoyed her mother wasn't watching her" feeling.

through gritted teeth i had said "oh, dont worry, it doesnt matter"...then phoned up pc world (puter was fairly new at the time), got put through to their exclusive-to-people-with-insurance type line. unfortunatly i had cancelled said rip off insurance a couple of days before (when i bought the pc i had been in the shop HOURS and the salesman just would not let it go...thought ok, i'll buy it and cancel next month, had forgotten for a couple of months but finally got round to it).

so anyway, the lovely man at pc world sorted the problem for me and when i got my phone bill i discovered the call had cost me £15.

the remedy to the problem? prise your stuck windows key back up love. arrrgggghhhhhhh! £15 quid for THAT!

Thing is, Windows is often set up so that if you hit the same key more than once in quick succession, it will lock - it's so that people who can only type one handed can use shift etc. Trouble is, when kids get let loose on a keyboard, they frequently pound away at the same key. You can often fix it by pressing two keys together.

Another thing they do (I've had MNer's ask about this twice within the last couple of weeks)is hold down ctrl & alt together (very easy to do with a chubby little fist banged down on the keyboard) & then press the arrow keys. This turns the display round so it's at right angles or upside down. Again, it's easy to fix by ctrl-alt-arrow.

Of course if they spill a drink on there you just have to cross your fingers & hope - I've known a teacher's laptop survive half a glass of water full on the keyboard, but DH's laptop gave up the ghost with a few drops of red wine.....