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Keyboard not working in one user account

My friend have a strange problem. Few weeks ago, he just bought a new keyboard for his laptop, because it's internal keyboard is broken. But recently, his new keyboard suddenly not working in his ...
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Strange keyboard events on Win8 HP laptop

I have had a HP Pavillion forever, running Win8. Lately, it has been acting weirdly, and I assumed it was simply on its deathbed. But the weirdness is getting even weirder now. Other than it sometimes ...
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Top (numeric / special symbol) keys on HP 15-b010tx regularly stop working. (Win 8.1 Pro)

I am sure this query has been found and answered elsewhere, but damned if I can find it. I am using an HP 15-b010tx Sleekbook with Windows 8.1 Pro, all updates regularly applied. About two weeks ago, ...
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How to swap Fn and Ctrl keys while connecting external keyboard to laptop

I am using Dell Latitude 3470 laptop which has Ctrl key on the left most corner and Fn key next to Ctrl key (CtrlFn) . But I am using Belkin K100 keyboard which has Fn key on the left most corner and ...
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Keyboard not working, But works on a different Laptop

I have Lenovo G500s (Non touch). My Keyboard is not working. let me explain. Me and my friend have the same laptop. My keyboard is working on his laptop but not on mine. His keyboard is working fine ...
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shift key in windows 8.1 is typing other characters instead of 'shift'

A customer keyboard 'left shift' and 'right shift' keys are not working as a shift key. I checked the registry and there's no remap for those keys. This is what happens when I click shift. Those logs ...
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My laptop's keyboard sometimes does not respond

I have Acer Aspire E15 E5-571 laptop and it runs MS Windows 8.1 OS. Sometimes, when I type letter 'a' on the keyboard it does not appear on the screen. For example, when I type the first part of my ...
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Fn key not properly working

I have a problem with my fn keys. If I use my volume hotkeys thru fn key, it works immediately even without releasing the volume hotkey. Now the problem is when I used the brightness, touchpad, and ...
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Keyboard/typing problems on Dell laptop

I've started to notice all kinds of typing/keyboard issues on my laptop recently (Dell Inspiron n5110). Some of them are: when I wake the laptop from sleep, I can't type my password can't type to ...
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Laptop randomly presses "backspace" even with disabled keys

I have the most annoying problem in this god damned world. Every time i am browsing the internet the computer randomly presses backspace and throws me to the previous page. it happens completely ...
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Laptop reboots with no reason

Here I have Acer 5750G laptop with core i7-2670QM upgraded CPU for three years ~Two weaks ago I had first instant reboot. Now laptop can work 15 minutes or 15 hours as well with very different load (...
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How to create new functions on laptop keyboard?

I got a new laptop, a Toshiba Portege Z30-A. It has a pointing stick (the dot in the middle, also called TrackPoint on Lenovo laptops) and it has the left and right click buttons. My old laptop used ...
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Keyboard typing random forward slashes by itself [duplicate]

I just bought a ACER ASPIRE V3-572G laptop that came with a preinstalled Windows 8.1, booted it up, set up the OS, installed virtually nothing and then started getting some Windows updates. Got a ...
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Keyboard on new notebook works only until typing in the Windows account-password

I'm setting up my g/f's new Acer notebook (coming pre-installed with Windows 8.1) via TeamViewer. For some reasons the internal keyboard completely stopped working. It works until she types in the ...
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