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    losing my s

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by cosmic ac, Oct 21, 2010.

  1. cosmic ac

    cosmic ac Notebook Consultant

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    After an hour my keyboard as well as the on screen keyboard loses the ability to register the s letter the capital s works fine so I don't think it's the physical keyboard. This started after I used the character map to type some special characters. The keyboard works fine after a computer restart. the drivers are updated.
     
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    What laptop is this? Is this an external keyboard, or the laptop's keyboard? If external, is it wired or wireless? USB? Which OS are we talking about - XP, Vista, 7?
     
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    It is an HP-G42-230US about 6 weeks old The laptop keyboard is loosing the s key as well as the onscreen keyboard. I will go ahead and reload the operating system and see if that helps It my be I have a key logger virus.
     
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    OK it it turns out there was a conflict with the VLC player I changed the hotkey for space to the lower case s. VLC player runs in the background and places it's icon on downloaded files this is when the s key was hijacked. I uninstalled VLC and used ccleaner to clean the registry. I expect VLC will solve this conflict in future editions.
     
    cosmic ac, Oct 26, 2010
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