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Post Date: 2012-09-04
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    Posted: 04 Sep 2012 at 5:25pm
My daughter has a Toshiba Satellite C655 laptop.  For some reason the keyboard does not type the letters that are pressed.  Sometime a letter and character are typed at the same time.  The back space does not remove a letter but goes a page back on the internet.
 
It runs on Win 7 home prem.  Is there a keyboard mapper that can be set to default or something?
 
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A re-install of Windows might be a good idea to try first, if that does not fix the issue, the keyboard may have gone bad.
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Just for the heck of it....go to Control Panel and hit "Ease of Access Center", then hit "Make the keyboard easier to use" , then make sure all the boxes are unchecked. Crazy....but I've seen programs change those settings.
 
 
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Or it could be that moisture got into the computer due to a spill or perhaps condensation of some kind. Happened to me on an old Tosh. My fingers were wet from a glass of something and that's all it took for the system to go wonky. Had to replace the motherboard too.

Unfortunately, it only had a short (1-yr) warranty. Lotsa expense, though cheaper than buying a new system.

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