keyboard settings

Hi I have a recurring problem with "Function key main module" disabling itself after i enable it in Task Manager Startup. When this happens the only way to use function keys F1 - F12 is to press the Fn key at the same time. So i go to startup in task manager and enable "Function key main module"...

Hello. I would like to disable the F1, F2,F3, and F4 function keys. They open windows help and change my brightness. I would like them to not open shortcuts so I can use them for gaming. How do I do this? I've been reading plenty of threads on it but I still dont understand...Thanks!

hello! i am trying to disable numlock on my login screen (Windows 8.1), so i went to regedit and the initialkeyboardindicators key was at two, and doing a google search told me i need to change it to 0, i tried changing it to 0 and then restarted my pc and numlock was still on, so i went back to...

Hi, the problem consists that after the Win7 image installation on the computer screen keyboard, which has been previously turned off, appears on the screen. Is it possible to turn off the keyboard through the Windows registry or through the group policy? OS Win7 embedded x64. Thank you in advice

Having a issue with the number pad "enter" key. It puts a accent symbol, and then the paragraph break. I have checked the language for the inputs it is United States(US). Somehow this key has been reprogrammed, the normal "Enter" key in the letters works normally with just a paragraph break, no...

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We use roaming profiles, and we have an office that has machines with different keyboards. A user will log into his box and have the correct settings, but when he goes to one of the other boxes, his keyboard settings follow him. Is there a reason for this? Isn't the keyboard settings on the...

I think I have narrowed it down to on mouse movement that text input fields fill with %E?;E?+E? or %%E; or different variations of those characters followed by ENTER... I think!?!? I removed all other languages from the keyboard settings in windows, and turned off the hotkeys for switching...

In this article, you can learn how to troubleshoot problem that unable to switch the input language from Korean to English in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. More...

Hi ! First thread on this forum and new user of Windows 8 for the last 5 days. I installed Win 8 RP on my Acer Iconia tab W500 and I have a little annoying problem with the touch pad. When I go in Internet Explorer (regular version desktop, not in Metro) and I "click" on the seach field of...

Hello All I would need your support in resolving the issue with my notebook having fresh installed Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. Problem :- I am not able to to logged into the windows even once due to change of my keyboard settings...looks like it is now changed to some other regional...

Hi, I am using Windows 7 and recently when booting the numeric lock is not on. I have to manually set with the numeric lock key. I checked using regedit and found the keyboard setting of "2" was already set. Can you assist? Thank you

Hi, I bought my computer half a year ago and ever since then there was a language bar that I could use. It worked just fine. Just recently, my computer had to recover data (pressing f12 repeatedly during startup) because of a "hard drive damage". When i finally had most of my data recovered, I...

After seeing the TechRepublic How do I blog post about how to disable the Insert key in Word, Frank Reeves asked for information on how to similarly disable the Caps Lock key. Link Removed

Today I decided to re-install windows 7 to make it was again, after backing up all the necessary files onto my on board 1TB hard drive I restartrd windows with the retail CD in the CD drive. I pressed F12 and chose to boot with CD rom, now after several minutes whilst the CD was starting up I...

I googled it and got vague answers, So i'll get straight to it. Is there a way onnn a Win7 inspiron to make it so that the F1,F2,F3 etc. are that by default vs. Dim screen and whatever.

We have a requirement to change key board properties (Repeat delay, Repeat rate and Cursor blink rate) and Default Input language programmatically. Our application is run under user context which is different from the user who is currently logged-on to the machine. For ex: If User1 is...

I tried installing Chinese IME using the Control Panel --> Change Keyboards and other input options. However, after selecting the required IMEs and keyboard input methods, I am not able to see the language option toolbar at the Task bar. I have selected the location for the language bar. Didn't...

I have bought a new Presario CQ61 model CQ61 - 406TU notebook with windows 7. In this moment I am using my old computer to come here because I have number of problems; one is that the keyboard types differently than what is on the keys. For instance if I hit the @ I get ", and vice versa...

I have three accounts set up on my windows 7 machine: Sys_admin, Bil, and Myra. Sysadmin has sysadmin privileges, Bill and Myra do not. While i'm logged in as Bill, win7 seems to put some documents in sys_admin's documents library and some in my Bill documents library. Should I just remove...