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Keyboard remapped to have no alt key

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  • 02-03-2010 5:49pm
    #1
    witless_steve
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭


    Some cheeky blighter remapped my keyboard to have no ALT key so I can't log in. I tried looking up how to reset the keyboard but they all assume you have access to windows in the first place.
    Anyone know of a way to reset the keyboard used in Windows XP back to the factory default?
    My alternative is to try to reinstall XP over the top and dump what I want to keep off the main drive and redo from scratch.
    Anyone able to help?


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    #2
    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Are you sure it's not just a busted key?


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    witless_steve
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭witless_steve


    Looks like they remapped the ALT keys to space bar.
    The ALT key works fine in DOS windows so I figure some cheeky monkey went messing about.


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    witless_steve
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭witless_steve


    Ah well, nuked the system to get it up and running again.
    Would be nice to know if there's a way to kick windows back to using the yankee keyboard it came with.
    Win 95 used to have some file it used to store your keyboard settings and if you killed it the system booted from the US keyboard.


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    molloyjazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭molloyjazz


    witless_steve wrote: »
    Ah well, nuked the system to get it up and running again.
    Would be nice to know if there's a way to kick windows back to using the yankee keyboard it came with.
    Win 95 used to have some file it used to store your keyboard settings and if you killed it the system booted from the US keyboard.

    You can do this, go: Controll panel/Regional and Lang options/Languages/Details

    You can change to any keyboard/language layout, the same as if you where installing windows.


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    witless_steve
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭witless_steve


    You can change you keyboard settings easily enough but I wasn't able to log into windows at all as some cheeky monkey disabled my ALT key.
    Fortunately I've found a fix, do a full ghost dump of the system when all set up and recover from that so you can reset the settings back to where they should be.
    What kind of a cheeky article changes a keyboard to have no alt key and walks away from it?


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