Keyboard problem !

[Pivert]

Hi,

my daughter's keyboard behaves bizarre on 3 keys : the ^ and ¨ key , the ~
key and the `key. All are keys that have to be hit first then the character
they apply to. When they are hit they instantly show the character in double
! Hence hitting the ^ key inserts directly ^^ ! Same for the trema, tlide
etc : directly double instead of nothing until the character is hit next as
for getting ô )

All other keys are OK.

Keyboard selected is belgian, as are regional codes and so on.

Any idea ?

I first thought that would be a default keyboard, but 3 keys are affected,
but of same nature !

Thanks all !
Pivert

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Hi,

my daughter's keyboard behaves bizarre on 3 keys : the ^ and ¨ key , the ~
key and the `key. All are keys that have to be hit first then the character
they apply to. When they are hit they instantly show the character in double
! Hence hitting the ^ key inserts directly ^^ ! Same for the trema, tlide
etc : directly double instead of nothing until the character is hit next as
for getting ô )

All other keys are OK.

Keyboard selected is belgian, as are regional codes and so on.

Any idea ?

I first thought that would be a default keyboard, but 3 keys are affected,
but of same nature !

Check your input language (control panel, regional & language, language,
details) .. doesn't sound as if it is matched with the keyboard. You are
seeing the exact inverse of what happens to Americans when they select
'international English' as input language on a USA keyboard - they have
to type '~~' to get a single ~.

btw, have you tried a different (Belgian) keyboard on this machine?

 

[Pivert]

Found ! There is a process loaded called bfld.exe ( don't know what it is,
wher it comes from ....) that does it : once removed the keyboard behaves
normally !
Wow ... These accents are much used here in french !
Thanks anyway for your efforts !
Bye

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Found ! There is a process loaded called bfld.exe ( don't know what it is,
wher it comes from ....) that does it : once removed the keyboard behaves
normally !
Wow ... These accents are much used here in french !

Glad to hear it. Bfld.exe is =not=, afaict, part of WinXP, so you might
want to go run a full virus and spyware scan on that system
(www.security.kolla.de, for spybot S&D; www.lavasoftusa.com for ad-aware
6) just in case that jolly little program was saving all the keystrokes
and sending them off to some hacker somewhere.

I assume you tried locating the .exe file with 'search', and then right
clicking it and seeing if its properties made any admission about who
wrote it and why?

 

[Alex Nichol]

my daughter's keyboard behaves bizarre on 3 keys : the ^ and ¨ key , the ~
key and the `key. All are keys that have to be hit first then the character
they apply to. When they are hit they instantly show the character in double
! Hence hitting the ^ key inserts directly ^^ ! Same for the trema, tlide
etc : directly double instead of nothing until the character is hit nextas
for getting ô )

All other keys are OK.

Not sure about the Belgian layout, but this happens with the 'US
International' one, and is intentional: it allows the typing of accented
characters using these dead keys. So for example, type ' then e and
get é or type ' then c and get ç A second stroke on the dead key,
or a key it does not 'go with', like space or d, gives you the expected
symbol.