Laptop keyboard problem

I've done something to my keyboard that keeps the bringing the wrong
characters up on screen. If I hold the Fn key down it's ok, otherwise I
get numbers and the wrong punctuation coming up.

How the **** do I sort it cos this message has taken 5 minutes to type?

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

sounds like you've accidentally changed the settings so it's not
acting as a UK English keyboard.

on the task bar, is there a little two-letter button just to the left
of the tool tray?

if you have one, and it's not displaying "EN", click on it and change
what it is displaying to "EN".

 

turn num lock off?

 

Check if it has a Fn Lock button .. mine does this sometimes ...

Might also be a Num Lock function to bring the number pad into play ...

 

Haven't got the little EN button showing. I tried to change it in
control panel and it was already set to UK English

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Go to language settings - it's probably got the wrong keyboard mapping
or similar. Which keys are going wrong, and what are they producing?

Or maybe not, re-reading the stuff about the fn jey...

 

Sussed it, I must have hit 'number scroll' at some point by accident.

Cheers for the pointer

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

I have, I just sussed it thanks

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

It was


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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

I'd stick to wielding spanners, IIWY!

 

Ah, the old Numpty Lock wickedness. Gets 'em all, that one.

 

You have "NumLk" (on my laptops it is the same key as F11) on.

 

I would be out there wielding spanners on that CBR of my mate's, if a
fucking engine mounting bolt hadn't sheared when removing it to fit
crash bungs.

Now waiting for another mate to come round with a BOC Portapak and some
long drills. We'll have the **** out one way or another.

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Lozzo
SV650S K5, ZX-7R P4, CBR600F-W, SR250 SpazzTrakka, SR250 Project
SpazzCaffer
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

fire muffins, old chap.

 

I use a toaster and there are none in the house anyway, or I'd have
eaten them.

 

Paging Brownz to the modified courtesy telephone.

ISTR you had a permanent fix to this problem?

 

nonono.

ginger pubes. 'tis a neo-yoofermizzum.

 

I am too old, on both counts.

 

Yes, it still works, the modification can be seen in the top left of
this picture.

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/brownie/desk.jpg

All you need is a flat bladed screw driver, or anything else that will
prize off the offending key.

 

heh. And - "A tidy desk is a sign of a sick mind". Well done.