Keyboard problem

[Aggers]

The last couple of days I have had problems logging in to websites,
as passwords have been rejected although I was certain they had been
typed in correctly.
Today I tried to register Mrs A into a website and she witnessed everything
I did but when we later tried to log in to that site I got the message "wrong
password" every time. I had a similar thing happen to me yesterday on another
website.
I rather suspect that there is something gone wrong with my laptop, because
at ons stage this afternoon it started typing wrong letters. For example when
I pressed the Key for @ it produced ". If this sort of thing is happening it would
explain why I have lately had trouble logging into some sites.

Any idea what is going wrong, and can it be cured?

[Workingman]

Hi Aggers,

Go to Control Panel>>>Region and Language. Make sure that everything in the Format, Location and Administrative tabs is set to English (United Kingdom). Now go to the Keyboards and Languages tab and click the Change Keyboards button. In the General tab make sure the Default language is English (United Kingdom) and that in the Installed Services panel you also have English (United Kingdom) and the Keyboard is United Kingdom as the topmost choice. If it is not then highlight it and use the Move Up button to bring it to the top. Any other language and keyboard options can be safely removed.

[Suff]

Hi Aggers, with the @ " issue the same thing as WM said came directly to min. It's a common US/UK keyboard issue.

For the other problems, I have to ask. Do you swap between an external keyboard and the internal one? Because the most common issue I see there is numlock when your keyboard on the laptop does not have a numeric keypad.

When you remove an external keyboard, you tend to keep the numlock on. What this does on a Laptop with no numeric keypad is to switch the keys around the iop/jkl etc to numbers. You should be able to see the numbers in a different colour on the keys.

If you are unsure of what you are typing, always open notepad and key in what you think you are entering. This helps to see if you have a misaligned key issue. If you are logging into windows, you can test by entering your password after the user name where you can see what you are typing.

Just some thoughts on the most common laptop keyboard issues I've seen. It is one of the reasons why I tend to buy laptops with integral numeric keypads if I can. Can't stand the numlocked numbers on a normal keyboard and won't ever use them.

[Workingman]

Good grief! I had forgotten keyboards without numpads.

Definitely another possibility.

[Aggers]

Thanks, guys.

Two points which are perhaps relevant: (a) I don't have an external keyboard, and
(b) The fault is not consistent. This is the puzzling thing about it.

[Workingman]

Aggers, I cannot remember whether your laptop has a numeric keypad, and have you tried the suggestions Suff and I made?

Another possibility could be the Fn (Function) key, if your keyboard has one. It's font is usually blue, or sometimes green, and it allows for temporary remapping of some keyboard keys - the alternative function should be on the keys being remapped, also in blue/green. The key is on the bottom row next to the Left Ctrl key and depending on the location of your touch pad it could be vulnerable to being accidentally pressed. The keys being remapped using Fn are not standard. My Toshiba is a lot different from my Acer.

As Suff suggested, try using Notepad and typing the same things over and over to try to establish what is happening.

[Aggers]

I think you might have something there, Frank.
Yes. the Fn key is in a vulnerable position and could easily be accidentally touched.

I won't try it out, as I wouldn't know how to correct it.