Tech advice

I my friends 3 year old grand-daughter was watching videos on my laptop yesterday and messed everything up. She pushed some buttons she shouldn't have and screwed up the keyboard. If I try and type an m on my keyboard, this is what I get. "Mju7". I know there's a series of buttons to fix this but I don't what they are. Typing one letter at a time using the on screen keyboard is a huge pain in the ass. Please help.

Thanks,


Ray

mju7.com

mju7 domain name

mju7's profile

DonDiego suspects none of this information will be of the slightest use.

That's not what I'm talking about. Any letter I type on the regular keyboard gives multiple letters of random bull shit. This is what I get when I type my name.

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This doesn't look like 'Ray' to me.

Well, at least DonDiego straightened out that possible misapprehension.

Nonetheless, DonDiego is quite certain he can be of no further assistance.

Can you perform a System Restore or whatever your laptop calls it?

Also, a long shot, but the m,j,u and 7 are in line vertically upward.
Maybe some sticky fingers, literally, stuck those keys together?

**Allow no kiddies to play on your laptop ever again.

Tried the restore. Didn't work. Keys aren't sticky either.

What type of computer? Have you tried using a USB keyboard to see if the problem is reproduced? Did any liquid spill inside, to your knowledge? Give a bit more information so that we can try to narrow things down.
Maybe try this:

In System Preferences, check International and make sure that English is at the top of the list under the Languages tab and that the Region is correct under the Formats tab.
Also make sure that nothing foreign to your language is ticked in the list under the Input Menu tab.

If anything needed to be changed in the International preference, restart your MacBook for it to take effect.

If nothing changes, do you have another USB keyboard you can plug into your MacBook to test the 7,u,j and m keys - just to see if it can't read those same keys on another keyboard?

If none of this leads anywhere, take it into an Apple Service Centre.

I pulled this from another site, ergo the reference to MacBook. I am making a presumption, but should work with a PC, as well. Let us know the results.

No, nothing spilled. No sticky keys. Nothing like that what so ever.

I'd also try the USB keyboard to trouble shoot since we are talking about a laptop the keys are easy to break. A three year old pounding on them could definitely do it.

Alternative :In Google type "turn off keyboard shortcuts (computer model)"

If your keyboard has a NumLock key, try toggling it, usually by pressing fn (function) and the NumLock key.

Then I'd try Control Panel -> Ease of Access (or Accessibility in older PCs), deselect sticky keys and keyboard shortcuts.

Then I'd go to Device Manager, open up the keyboard setting and uninstall the driver. When it restarts it will automatically reinstall.

Then (advanced) I'd update the BIOS.