Windows 2000 Laptop Keyboard Problem

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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.
 
"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
 
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.
 
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