Keys not giving me right character problem

[ansj64]

Hi

I have been suffering from an inability to use the slash key comma key num lock scroll luck question mark and other non letter or number keys.

every time I type on the said keys a window shows up with a number and its always the same number for the same key and the window title will show Microsoft with an ok button which I need to click to go away.

I have tried installing and uninstalling keyboard drivers. I have also tried scanning and removing malware and viruses cleaning up the system registry checking the accessibility options all of which are not checked.

I have also tried changing the physical keyboard itself and the other keyboard gives the same response

i have tried removing all non needed keyboards in the regional and language settings.

I have tried everything that I know of short of reparing the Microsoft Windows system itself which I cannot do since the disk I have is SP2 and I am now on SP3.

Maybe the experts in this forum can help me

and again sorry if there are no commas question marks etc

I have attached a screen cap to show exactly the problem I see. Whenever I type any of the key I get a window.

ansj64

 

[Elizabeth23]

post a screenshot of what your keyboard layout looks like, it should be set to us as default,

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as for repair, you can slipstream sp3 onto your installation cd and then you could run repair with the new cd. let me know if you want slipstream instructions.

 

[Elizabeth23]

ALSO, do you have a restore point to when the keyboard was working??

where are you located, US??

do you have xp pro or home??

 

[Elizabeth23]

and again:

run chkdsk with the /r parameter, run at least twice until no errors are found

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265/en-us
How to perform checkdisk

if you do not have Recovery Console installed, then run from the start menu

go to start, run, type in cmd

in cmd type in chkdsk c: /r and press enter

type Y for yes and press enter

type exit and press enter

restart pc, allow checkdisk to finish and run again

this is a lengthy process depending on the size of your harddrive, the percentages will fluctuate, this is normal, you can view report in the event viewer.
go to start>run> and type in eventvwr.msc, click on the applications directory, and in the right hand panel choose winlogon.

 

[Jojo]

Just a thought, is your NumLock key been pressed?