Help on strange problems with keyboard input

[Fred]

Hi, there,

I have Windows XP Home Edition on my Dell desktop
computer. Sometimes, when I'm editing inside some
applications such as Word or Outlook Express, what I type
on the keyboard doesn't result in the correct letters.
For example, when I press the "D" key but the screen may
show the input of "R" or some other letter. If I close
the application and then restart the program, then
everything becomes normal again. I suspect it has
something to do with clipboard. I have Nortion Antivirus
and it doesn't detect anything. Can somebody help me
solve this problem? It is sometimes quite frustrating.
Thanks a lot.

Fred

 

[msauaf]

I guess you can check Control Panel / Regional Options /
Language tab / Details button and find more than ONE
input language + keyboard (layout) set. For sake of
simplicity, let just one set and remove others. May this
help if is the case.

 

[tamerlane]

The other poster is right. Do you happen to share your computer with another
user who may use a foreign keyboard layout? Have you ever seen the Language
Bar on your applications?