Keyboard characters have gone awry

In Control Panel > Regional and Language Options, On the Keyboard and
Languages tab, click on Change Keyboards. Under "Installed services", what
keyboard is listed? For example, is it English (United States) > Keyboard
> US?


"Pflueger" <phluge1.DeleteThis@yaBLOODYhoot.com> wrote in message
news:Ow3z3qi1HHA.4768@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Gateway laptop w/ Vista Premium. Demons have taken over my keyboard and
> are
> messing with my head.
>
> The colon ( types as a dash (-), the "P" types as an asterisk (*), and I
> don't know what else because I stopped to post this for help. I don't have
> a
> clue what changed or how.
>
> I have work to do and am at a standstill over this as I don't want to mess
> up what I am in the middle of. Please help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pflu
>
>

Thanks guys, I saved work then rebooted but nothing changed. Then I noticed
these were the characters of the numlock "on". I switched it off and it is
OK again.

Thing is I absolutely did not switch numlock to "on" nor is it likely I
could have done it by mistake since it takes two very disparate keys to make
it functional.

Demons is all I can think of.

Pflu




"dean-dean" <dean-dean RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8ED58CDB-35D0-419C-8B8A-D812875B4DD6@microsoft.com...
> In Control Panel > Regional and Language Options, On the Keyboard and
> Languages tab, click on Change Keyboards. Under "Installed services",
what
> keyboard is listed? For example, is it English (United States) >
Keyboard
> > US?
>
>
> "Pflueger" <phluge1 RemoveThis @yaBLOODYhoot.com> wrote in message
> news:Ow3z3qi1HHA.4768@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > Gateway laptop w/ Vista Premium. Demons have taken over my keyboard and
> > are
> > messing with my head.
> >
> > The colon ( types as a dash (-), the "P" types as an asterisk (*), and
I
> > don't know what else because I stopped to post this for help. I don't
have
> > a
> > clue what changed or how.
> >
> > I have work to do and am at a standstill over this as I don't want to
mess
> > up what I am in the middle of. Please help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pflu
> >
> >
>