[Eminemdrdre00]

My friend has a problem with her laptop keyboard. I am typing on it as I write this. This is what I get when I hold down shift and press the number keys, starting with the tilda and ending with 0.

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also some keys like question marks do not work either, they display strange characters, the semi colon for example give me an N with a tilda over it. Anyone know what can be wrong or how to get the keys back to default.
She bought the laptop from Circuit City and it was a display unit, so she got 400$ off. But who knows what people who were playing with it did. Shes been using it for over a month now, and of course wasnt given a XP reinstallation disk, so reformatting will hopefully be the last resort. Thanks for your help!

[swimtech]

It's possible that the keyboard is set for wrong language or region in which she is using it. Take a look in the Windows Control Panel at the Regional and Language Options and the Keyboard control panels and see if they are set to English (US).

There also may be a way to remap keys (sorry - I'm not familiar with that though), or some special keyboard software is included on her particular lappy that may need attention...

[Z3RO]

also some keys like question marks do not work either, they display strange characters, the semi colon for example give me an N with a tilda over it. Eminemdrdre00

it's obviously the keyboard setting is changed into spain (español)... you just simply change it into U.S keyboard setting... it's a relief that the keyboard button not change
"home" is "inicio", "end" is "fin"

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