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What the F is wrong with my keyboard?

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  • D DeathByChocolate

    Well, this fine quality Swiss Easter Egg isn't going to eat itself you know! ;P

    "State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B

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    Rajesh R Subramanian
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    Assuming that your claims here are actually true, I'd think that except for when you're eating chocolates, you'd pretty much spend the rest of your time on a treadmill. :)

    "Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

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    • D DeathByChocolate

      No proglems zere! ;)

      "State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B

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      Henry Minute
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      Repeat after me: "Gottle of geer." "Gottle of geer." "Gottle of geer." "Gottle of geer." "Vust get Henry a gottle of geer."

      Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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      • R Rajesh R Subramanian

        Assuming that your claims here are actually true, I'd think that except for when you're eating chocolates, you'd pretty much spend the rest of your time on a treadmill. :)

        "Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

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        DeathByChocolate
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        You have outed me! Truth is I hardly ever eat chocolate ... I love it but I just have a little from time to time - otherwise a whole new wardrobe would be required, if you know what I mean. :rolleyes: ... but I like to dream! :-O :-D

        "State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B

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        • D Dalek Dave

          Griff, trust me, that isn't Toblerone!

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          DeathByChocolate
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          You can't beat the knobbly bits on a Toblerone! ;P

          "State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful" Chris C-B

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          • W Wjousts

            Wow! I can't believe I didn't know that. I bet I've done it while alt-tabbing between windows (and some time alt-shift-tabbing to go backwards). The problem was that I had a French keyboard "installed" from when I was messing around with language settings to test a . vs , issue. I removed it from the list of installed keyboards and now it won't switch even with alt-shift. Cheers!

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            Lost User
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            Yep, isn't it astonishing that a stateful change can be made using only modifier keys and that this is on be DEFAULT. AND those modifier keys are part of several well-established key sequences already. Dumb as you like.

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            • W Wjousts

              Just lately my work laptop has intermittently taken to suddenly changing it's keyboard layout. But it's not system-wide, it usually happens to a single (different) application I have open. For example, I just restarted Firefox because my W has coming out as a Z and my : was coming out as an M? All my other applications seemed to be fine. It's absolutely baffling. Has anybody else seen anything like this? I've already asked for a new laptop, but since we are about to upgrade (finally) to Windows 7 (from XP), I'm holding out for a brand new Windows 7 laptop rather than have them give me an XP laptop and then upgrade it again a week or two later. My current laptop is truly on it's last legs. It probably didn't help when I spilt a nearly full cup of tea over it a few months back :java:

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              Wendelius
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              If not already posted, not that pressing left shift and alt simultaneously toggles between keyboard layouts. I often do this by mistake :)

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              • W Wjousts

                Just lately my work laptop has intermittently taken to suddenly changing it's keyboard layout. But it's not system-wide, it usually happens to a single (different) application I have open. For example, I just restarted Firefox because my W has coming out as a Z and my : was coming out as an M? All my other applications seemed to be fine. It's absolutely baffling. Has anybody else seen anything like this? I've already asked for a new laptop, but since we are about to upgrade (finally) to Windows 7 (from XP), I'm holding out for a brand new Windows 7 laptop rather than have them give me an XP laptop and then upgrade it again a week or two later. My current laptop is truly on it's last legs. It probably didn't help when I spilt a nearly full cup of tea over it a few months back :java:

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                Wjousts wrote:

                and my : was coming out as an M?

                I bet it really hurts when something other that ! or | comes out of your :

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                • H Henry Minute

                  Repeat after me: "Gottle of geer." "Gottle of geer." "Gottle of geer." "Gottle of geer." "Vust get Henry a gottle of geer."

                  Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.

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                  Gary Wheeler
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                  99 gottles of geer on ze vall, 99 gottles of geer; take vun doon, pass it aroond, 98 gottles of geer on ze vall! 99 gottles of geer on ze vall, 98 gottles of geer; take vun doon, pass it aroond, 97 gottles of geer on ze vall! ...

                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                  • W Wjousts

                    Just lately my work laptop has intermittently taken to suddenly changing it's keyboard layout. But it's not system-wide, it usually happens to a single (different) application I have open. For example, I just restarted Firefox because my W has coming out as a Z and my : was coming out as an M? All my other applications seemed to be fine. It's absolutely baffling. Has anybody else seen anything like this? I've already asked for a new laptop, but since we are about to upgrade (finally) to Windows 7 (from XP), I'm holding out for a brand new Windows 7 laptop rather than have them give me an XP laptop and then upgrade it again a week or two later. My current laptop is truly on it's last legs. It probably didn't help when I spilt a nearly full cup of tea over it a few months back :java:

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                    Vivi Chellappa
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                    Wjousts wrote:

                    It probably didn't help when I spilt a nearly full cup of tea over it a few months back [Coffee]

                    Spilling :beer: would explain the kind of behavior you describe, but tea?

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                    • W Wjousts

                      Just lately my work laptop has intermittently taken to suddenly changing it's keyboard layout. But it's not system-wide, it usually happens to a single (different) application I have open. For example, I just restarted Firefox because my W has coming out as a Z and my : was coming out as an M? All my other applications seemed to be fine. It's absolutely baffling. Has anybody else seen anything like this? I've already asked for a new laptop, but since we are about to upgrade (finally) to Windows 7 (from XP), I'm holding out for a brand new Windows 7 laptop rather than have them give me an XP laptop and then upgrade it again a week or two later. My current laptop is truly on it's last legs. It probably didn't help when I spilt a nearly full cup of tea over it a few months back :java:

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                      Mark_Wallace
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                      I had a similar problem with Chinese. It turned out to be a Java setting, which, naturally, only affected Java apps. If that's the problem, I can look up how i fixed it, or you can just browse for Java language settings (but don't accept the first and most repeated "solution" returned, because it's high-level crap that doesn't change anything). [edit] you can check to see if Java is the problem by opening the Java applet in Control Panel. If the keyboard goes wonky there, Java's probably the problem.

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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