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I think this was a classic case of outsmarting myself. Sometimes we become convinced that our logic is pretty good when in fact you are going the total wrong direction. Like someone said, lots of experience minimizes mistakes but experience comes from mistakes.

THE FINAL UPDATE with problem finally found. WIRELESS mouse was somehow interfering with keyboard operation even though the microsoft wireless mouse appeared to be functioning perfectly. ie all arrow movement and click functions were working like they were supposed to. I only found this out...

Absolutley right. I read right over the mouse comment because as far as I could tell my mouse was working fabulously. which it was at least as far as pointing and clicking etc. There are a trillion things I dont know about the technology but I sure didnt think a wireless mouse could affect...

Some of you may have followed my troubleshooting adventure very recently under the thread of ERRATIC SHIFT keys and keyboard operation. My 30 years of experience and the best minds in this group missed this completely. Problem was that I could not type numbers on my keyboard and it appeared...

TO MSCALLISTO abOut drivers yes i weNt to the devicE inFo areas that you specified and indeed you aRE right _____ there is a driver for the one_oh_Two key standarD us keyboard. i clIcked on the uPdate pull doWn option and gavE PermISsion to accesS the microsoft dRivEr wEbsItE To seARch for...

MAY I JUST SAY RCLARK TWO FIFTY "s suggestion is shear genius ! ! ! why did i never think about dos even when i was thinking about bootable linux etc> funny how we forget> in any case< i did have a bootable dos diskette and sure enough i cannot type any numbers at the command prompt or...

i have been told to order and reinstall xp_pro just to test to see if i am having an op sys problem> lots of cost time and trouble there> in the real old days we had several vendors that made bootable diagnostics programs that were their own operating systems and could test hardware without...

thanks i will try to enter safe mode via start run meanwhile facts: onscreen keyboard malfunctions same way as hardware keyboard? _ system fails to recognize f_eight at bootup although it does recognize f_nine and f_ten ? ? ? i am using newly purchased keyboard to rule out keyboard problems...

i ran the full scans with the malware detection software and it found nothing> although i was hopeful it was a virus or something because the on screen keyboard does not work properly and seems to show the shift keys being automatically and intermittently i am now once again puzzled and...

REGARDING on screen keyboard i did not realize it but i was able to launch the program with out the dot exe and i went to wordpad and also email program and tried to input data and the onscreen keyboard does not work at all perhaps i am doing something wrong but i bring the osk up over my...

BTW I TRIED TO LAUNCH OSK ( CAPS LOCK NOW TURNED OFF ) from start_run but i cannot get the system to type a dot in front of the exe nor can i type any numbers whether it be from number pad or above letter keys dang it i have now wasted about six or seven hours trying to finagle a repair or...

i strongly suspect that at some point in the future microsoft will be updating with software code that will purposely degrade the operation of xp pro in ways that will make us and force us to acquire new op sys> i am still using win ninety eight on another system with legacy programs just fine...

i am beginning to believe that the problem is inteRnal motherboard related as i cannot type any numbers and some function keys seem inoperable as i cannot get system to recognize F_eight so i can test in safe mode however i rebooted fifteen times trying to get to safemode and went to wordpad...

intermittently my cap keys and ctrl and shift keys misbehave when trying to type and use these keys to control cursor movement when managing files in windows explorer or even trying to type a message> for instance< I just tried to type a period at the end of the last sentence and a comma after...