WindowsXp Professional SP2
Dell Inspiron E1705


Today, my computer has retuned a character that looks like an
upside-down L, (or a vertical 7) when I type a lower case 'l' in
windows. I noticed when I was unable to log into our firm vpn from home
as my password was rejected (in contains the letter 'l'). I had logged
on earlier in the morning. I have made no changes to my system. It does
not appear to be a hardware problem as, as you can see, the 'l''s in
this web message appear fine. In fact, I tried to copy this character
from a text file I created to test, and when it is pasted into this
message, it appears proper as 'l'. Additionally, if I go to a dos
prompt - the character appears properly.

I tried to restore to yesterday's restore point -- but windows tells me
that no changes have been made to my system.

As always, help is greatly appreciated.

Bill Carlson

Have you tried a different keyboard?

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
www.vistahelp.ca



Bill.Carlson wrote:
> WindowsXp Professional SP2
> Dell Inspiron E1705
>
>
> Today, my computer has retuned a character that looks like an
> upside-down L, (or a vertical 7) when I type a lower case 'l' in
> windows. I noticed when I was unable to log into our firm vpn from
> home as my password was rejected (in contains the letter 'l'). I had
> logged on earlier in the morning. I have made no changes to my
> system. It does not appear to be a hardware problem as, as you can
> see, the 'l''s in this web message appear fine. In fact, I tried to
> copy this character from a text file I created to test, and when it
> is pasted into this message, it appears proper as 'l'. Additionally,
> if I go to a dos prompt - the character appears properly.
>
> I tried to restore to yesterday's restore point -- but windows tells
> me that no changes have been made to my system.
>
> As always, help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Bill Carlson