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Advice needed - keyboard jumbling letters but ONLY when browsing the web!
indyw
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Would anyone have some advice on a weird problem I've been having?
My keyboard is jumbling letters up but ONLY when I use the internet - I usually use Chrome but it's the same in Firefox and IE as well. I've typed this in notepad and pasted it in and as you can see it's fine (any dodgy spelling is due to my fat fingers!) but when I type anything into the search bar or into a webform some letters are replaced by others. So at the moment I have J where the P should be, no a s or d, these have been replaced by m o and n.
Apart from an update to Windows and to Zonealarm I've made no other changes and my keyboard settings are correct. I've cleaned under the keyboard as well although I don't think that's the issue.
The bottom row of the keyboard is fine as are the numbers across the top row.
Has anyone come across this before and how did you fix it, if in fact it is fixable?
This is my current keyboard according to any web browser:
qwertyuioj
monfgrlpl
zxcvbnm
(In the time it's taken to type this my k has gone from k to f to p)
If it helps, I'm running Vista. My laptop is fairly old but apart from the keyboard is sturdy and works well.
My keyboard is jumbling letters up but ONLY when I use the internet - I usually use Chrome but it's the same in Firefox and IE as well. I've typed this in notepad and pasted it in and as you can see it's fine (any dodgy spelling is due to my fat fingers!) but when I type anything into the search bar or into a webform some letters are replaced by others. So at the moment I have J where the P should be, no a s or d, these have been replaced by m o and n.
Apart from an update to Windows and to Zonealarm I've made no other changes and my keyboard settings are correct. I've cleaned under the keyboard as well although I don't think that's the issue.
The bottom row of the keyboard is fine as are the numbers across the top row.
Has anyone come across this before and how did you fix it, if in fact it is fixable?
This is my current keyboard according to any web browser:
qwertyuioj
monfgrlpl
zxcvbnm
(In the time it's taken to type this my k has gone from k to f to p)
If it helps, I'm running Vista. My laptop is fairly old but apart from the keyboard is sturdy and works well.
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Try downloading this small app:
http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/
More details:
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-fix-annoying-cursor-jumping-problem-while-typing-documents-in-laptops/
The logical place to look is Windows Vista. I think only the operating system could do such a trick as change the keys in different situations.
I have no idea how to fix it though. If it were me I would look at the last Windows Update and see if anything was updated to do with "localisation" or things like that.