Vista - Sudden keyboard problem. Any clues?

Vista is an OS and, as such, would be an unlikely (and illogical) candidate in troubleshooting a keyboard error. The most likely candidate for narrowing down this problem is the keyboard itself and the keyboard's cable. Swap to another kybd (if you can) and see if another keyboard produces the same symptom.

if I were a betting man I would say you have a cracked circuit board on the bottom row inside of your keyboard. It could even produce intermittant symptoms depending on the pressure on it.

However, to better present you with additional helpful Vista OS info beyond my grasp of experience, I leave you with a link to Vista-heads, a knowledge blog:

http://www.vistaheads.com/...

I have trouble with Vista and IM clients. Several times throughout the day, my 'a' key will become 'q' and 'z' will become a. Many of the number keys and other keys are also switched around. I end up having to close and restart my chat clients and then the keyboard goes back to normal. Any ideas?

I am having a similar problem - im using a laptop so it is definitely not a keyboard error. Everything was working fine up until a week ago. Now randomly my keyboard freezes, and only keys that have a function associated with them (blue characters on the key buttons) respond. It takes between 15-60 seconds to go away, and the entire time i cannot type anything. I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 with Vista home premium. The media keys also do funky stuff, like when I hit the volume down media button it will toss: "jkl;\jkl;jkl;\" to the input buffer. Anyone experience anything like this??

Thanks for fixing my problem "annoyed". I use CDisplay, and one of the key combinations for that program is shift spacebar, so about every ten minutes I would accidentally hit vista's "make the keyboard stop working" key comibination and would end up restarting the comuputer. I'm pretty sure I'm good to go now that that is disabled.

I am not good.

I have Vista and have lost my punctuation -- my keyboard behaves like Canadian - French instead of Canadian English or Canadian Int'l or US -- I have been to the Regional Settings and I select the appropriate keyboard, but it doesn't take hold.

Ideas?

HP wireless keyboard (I hate it -- it keeps winking-out for seconds at a time...)

3 days ago my 18month old son turned my pc off at the mains while i was working on it when i turned it back on the keyboard and mouse were not working intellipoint 6.0 on vista sp1, i tried an old mouse and keyboard on it that worked for a while untill i rebooted now no mouse and keyboard work on it, the intellipoint works ok on another system so i know they are not the problem any clues

I bought a new laptop about 2 weeks ago now, it already had windows vista installed on it. I have been with windows vista on my old laptop and i never experienced any problems. My new laptop however having windows vista, is different from my other laptop. When you were on my old laptop, if you put your mouse over something in the toolbar then it would show you whats happening there. For example: if i am on a google and open another internet explorer and go onto askjeeves then put my mouse over the google page in the toolbar it would show me what i was doing on google. I know it is confusing. All i am wanting to know is where can you find a FREE microsoft vista package?

im so pissed off my keyboard buttons are all messed up for example when i press the @ button it gives me a speech mark and the @ is the speech mark button and there are lots others iv switchd keyoards and still hav the same problem this has all of a sudden happend plz help iv tried to do wot #4 sais but it still dont work plz HELP!!!!!

i used to get they keys changing problem alot while running XP but my computer was really old along with my keyboard so i assumed that was the problem.
I am currently running Vista on a laptop that is approx 5 months old now.
It was working fine but slowly getting worse and worse:
-Now HPQuick Play randomly starts up (with or without disks in disk drive)
-Right-Click button stops working (doesnt work still even if i plug a mouse or use my wireless one)
-Alt-Button stops working (Cant access toolbars in IE7 amoung other things)
-Menu's stop opening (i thought it may have had something to do with the Temp Files taking up alot of space so i clear it but doesnt make a difference. I even try closing programs incase Virtual Memory is getting full but no luck)
Btw all of these happen randomly. sometimes they will happen ever 5-10mins other times they will not happen for a few days but it is happening more and more as of late

Please if anyone has ANY ideas on any of these problems please email me
midget_dude4evr@hotmail.com