Shift + number keys not giving expected symbols

Anonymous
2011-02-13T08:03:49+00:00

At first, I thought my new keyboard was messed up. So I switched from the brand new one back to my old one. And I still have the same problem. Whwn I hold down the SHIFT and 2 key on my keyboard, it suppossed to make the @ sign right

It doesnt.. instead it makes this " (a paranthesis). Same with Shift and 3 keyboard, it makes a slash instead of the usual number sign.

Still, if I wanna make the at sign, I gotta hold down ALT and then key 2... see... @

As for a question mark key... I cant even get that to work. Something is messed up here, and its really annoying. I need my old ways of typing back. Can anyone help me thanks in advance.

Dan

*original title - Just bought a brand new HP computer.. came with Windows 7. My Shift Key wont work...*

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Anonymous
2011-02-13T11:10:38+00:00

Sounds as if you have selected an input language other than English. Control Panel, Region and Language; also check to see if your new keyboard has a language selection available that may need to be changed.

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At first, I thought my new keyboard was messed up. So I switched from the brand new one back to my old one. And I still have the same problem. Whwn I hold down the SHIFT and 2 key on my keyboard, it suppossed to make the @ sign right

It doesnt.. instead it makes this " (a paranthesis). Same with Shift and 3 keyboard, it makes a slash instead of the usual number sign.

Still, if I wanna make the at sign, I gotta hold down ALT and then key 2... see... @

As for a question mark key... I cant even get that to work. Something is messed up here, and its really annoying. I need my old ways of typing back. Can anyone help me thanks in advance.

Dan

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-16T17:31:42+00:00

    you probably have two official languages...same thing happened to me. you probably pressed something, to change the language on your keyboard press left arrow + shift + alt.

    Thanks! That's exactly what I did when I was trying to see all my open windows at one time on the new Windows 10, which apparently does not like the shift+tab command. I did not notice that out of frustration I did this, until I had to enter an e-mail and the @ turned to a " (quote). Used your instructions and wo-la, here we are back to normal. Thanks Again!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-28T00:34:19+00:00

    Searched for so long and found your answer which is so simple and YES it worked...  so thank you. :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-27T14:40:10+00:00

    This worked for me.

    Thanks Ken!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-21T19:06:37+00:00

    Took me a few minutes to solve this one

    Press  FN,CTRL and SHIFT at the same time to switch the function of the keys on the keyboard.

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