Laptop Keyboard Problem

[Guest Roger Fink]

I'm in the process of setting up a ThinkPad R40 W2k laptop for a friend of

mine. I've created a new administrator level profile for her and in general

things are going OK with the exception of this keyboard problem

 

Certain letters on the right side of the keyboard have numbers or symbols on

them and it's the numbers and symbols that are being displayed when you

press the keys. For instance <explorer.exe> appears as <ex*36rer.exe>. This

can be corrected by pressing shift/num lock after you log in but she

shouldn't have to do that. It should default to a normal keyboard without

that step. The other profiles on the machine don't have this problem.

 

I've run into this before, probably on this machine in fact, and I've been

able to solve it, but not this time.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Laptop Keyboard Problem

 

 

"Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in message

news:uE3mPcsgIHA.5280@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> I'm in the process of setting up a ThinkPad R40 W2k laptop for a friend of

> mine. I've created a new administrator level profile for her and in

> general

> things are going OK with the exception of this keyboard problem

>

> Certain letters on the right side of the keyboard have numbers or symbols

> on

> them and it's the numbers and symbols that are being displayed when you

> press the keys. For instance <explorer.exe> appears as <ex*36rer.exe>.

> This

> can be corrected by pressing shift/num lock after you log in but she

> shouldn't have to do that. It should default to a normal keyboard without

> that step. The other profiles on the machine don't have this problem.

>

> I've run into this before, probably on this machine in fact, and I've been

> able to solve it, but not this time.

>

>

 

This link might help: http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=0023

[Guest Roger Fink]

Re: Laptop Keyboard Problem

 

 

 

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

> "Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in message

> news:uE3mPcsgIHA.5280@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> I'm in the process of setting up a ThinkPad R40 W2k laptop for a

>> friend of mine. I've created a new administrator level profile for

>> her and in general

>> things are going OK with the exception of this keyboard problem

>>

>> Certain letters on the right side of the keyboard have numbers or

>> symbols on

>> them and it's the numbers and symbols that are being displayed when

>> you press the keys. For instance <explorer.exe> appears as

>> <ex*36rer.exe>. This

>> can be corrected by pressing shift/num lock after you log in but she

>> shouldn't have to do that. It should default to a normal keyboard

>> without that step. The other profiles on the machine don't have this

>> problem.

>>

>> I've run into this before, probably on this machine in fact, and

>> I've been able to solve it, but not this time.

>>

>>

>

> This link might help: http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=0023

 

 

"How can we make this as difficult as possible?"

 

The full registry path didn't exist so I had to create a new key, but that

did work. Thanks.