Some keys of keyboard are not working

waleedhbk · February 12, 2015, 6:47pm

I have a problem with my keyboard

As when I have to enter @ i have to use shift plus 2 to enter it when I do it it comes up with a comma
And same thing is happening with hashtag it doesnt shows and sign of Euro shows up :S

I am really confused about this whole situation

Can anybody help me

us1415 · February 12, 2015, 6:51pm

Re: Some keys of keyboard are not working

dude i have had the same problem since I got my laptop. very frustrating…
the @ symbol and the quote symbol were swapped…
to make matters worse I was getting european characters with key combos.
after months of ignoring it I finally tracked it down.

try this.. control panel → regional and language options → languages → details
first try ‘key settings’ and untick the boxes to swap between keyboards.

but that wasn’t enough for me it still kept changing keyboard layouts!
(what the hell, what stupid shortcuts microsoft, don’t you know Ctrl-shift is
often used to select text, and at least it would be nice to turn it off.)

so I simply removed US-International and UK keyboards leaving just “US”…
and hey presto I have a normal keyboard layout FINALLY. jeez. crazy.

hope that works for ya. if not check out sticky keys, or i read somewhere else
to try pressing left and right shift with Alt…? didn’t do anything for me but.

from: Shift key typing wrong sign [Solved]

waleedhbk · February 12, 2015, 9:07pm

Re: Some keys of keyboard are not working

Still didnt worked :(

Mirch · February 13, 2015, 3:45am

Re: Some keys of keyboard are not working

From the device manager uninstall the keyboard driver , reboot the computer, take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
If it does not help replace the keyboard. for desktop replacing the keyboard is easy and less expensive but for laptop it is an expensive proposition so if you cannot afford to change it then buy an external keyboard and use it.
There are many choices depending how new your laptop is , you can buy a wireless, wired ,or bluetooth enabled keyboard.

Rayan · February 13, 2015, 10:49am

Re: Some keys of keyboard are not working

As Joel said, remove all the keyboard layout except the EN-US one, you can find the Keyboard layouts in Language and Regional settings.