keyboard shift key gives random result
keyboard shift key gives random result. For example, when I tried to enter the 'at' symbol for the email address, the result was E, When I just tried it again typing this email, the result was N. I had to open a word document, type the email address there and copy and paste it to set up my account here. On the next line, I will hold the shift key down and type the top keyboard row HEYONPHERH_+
I don't know if it affects other keys or not.
Any ideas?
keyboard shift key gives random result. For example, when I tried to enter the 'at' symbol for the email address, the result was E, When I just tried it again typing this email, the result was N. I had to open a word document, type the email address there and copy and paste it to set up my account here. On the next line, I will hold the shift key down and type the top keyboard row
HEYONPHERH_+
I don't know if it affects other keys or not.
Any ideas?
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See:
- http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/The-Language-bar-overview The Language bar (overview)
It is possible that you have switched the keyboard layout by accident.
- Make sure that you have the Language bar visible on the Windows Taskbar.
- You can do that via the right-click context menu of the Taskbar: Toolbars > Language Bar.
- Check the keyboard language (keyboard layout) setting for the application that has focus via the icon on the Language bar.
- You need to do that while Firefox has focus because Windows remembers the keyboard layout setting per application.
- The default keys to rotate the layout is a combination (Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift) that can easily be used in Firefox to activate a menu item.
- To avoid an unintentional switch assign a specific key sequence (Alt/Ctrl+Shift+number) to select keyboard layouts and remove the key combination to rotate layouts (Alt+Shift or Ctrl+Shift)
- Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Keyboards and Languages > Change keyboards > Advanced key settings > Change key sequence