Recent content by RangerBobM

Once again, thank you very very much. I didn't have time to work on this problem over the weekend, but I'll work my way through your suggestions one by one starting today. (Though I'm always a little nervous messing around in the Registry!)

I'll give that a try-- thanks!

Thanks-- will do!

OMG, wow! THANK YOU for this detailed response. I really appreciate the way you walked me though the whole process. I 'm going to study it carefully, and reexamine the problem in light of what I've learned from this message. Again, thank you very much.

Update: I got BitDefender working after a couple more tries, and after running all night I got the results: no viruses on the machine. That's good news, of course, but it still doesn't bring me any closer to an answer to my question. I'll probably just bite the bullet and reinstall Windows in a...

Interesting development: I ran a full Malwarebytes scan and that reported nothing suspicious. Then I downloaded Bitdefender and activated the subscription. (I had been relying in Windows Defender.) Clicked "Full system scan" and after a moment I got an error message: "Bitdefender has...

Thanks-- I checked and that works the way it's supposed to.

Very interesting! I tried your suggestion, and I'm having the same problem with the keypad DEL key. NUMLOCK off, press the decimal point key, nothing happens.

Well, poop. I uninstalled SharpKeys, rebooted, and that didn't fix the problem either. I had such high hopes!

Thank you everyone for all your advice. In fact I do have SharpKeys installed to disable CAPSLOCK and INS, so I'm going to try uninstalling the program right now. I'll come back and let everyone know if it works. Again, thank you all very much.

Yes- that's why I think the problem is in the system, not the keyboard.

I'm at a loss. I built this system last November, and everything was working fine until this happened roughly a week ago. Nothing in particular changed in the system that I'm aware of, but just in case I tried a Windows system rollback to an earlier date. Also, as I mentioned in my original...

Thanks for your help! Thanks, but I've known the difference between Delete and Backspace since MS-DOS days, same with insert and typeover modes. I wish the answer was simple as that. :) Same thing with DEL and SHIFT-DEL. (I do understand why you asked, and I appreciate the fact that you did.)...

I've got a bizarre problem with the DELETE key in my Windows 11 system: it works correctly in some situations, but not in others. The problem is definitely not with the keyboard itself; I've swapped in several keyboards and the problem occurs with all of them. Here's what I'm dealing with...