In message , n/a writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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This minor manifestation of my keyboard problems is particularly
puzzling. Whether it's connected with the other funnies, I don't know:
it doesn't seem to be correlated!

This one manifests as an inability to type the character ) [close
round bracket]. On my keyboard layout, it is the shifted 0 (zero)
character. [UK layout - though I think that's where it is on lots of
others, such as the default (US) one.] It is not a hardware fault: I
can type a zero, and I can use the shift keys with any other key where
doing so produces a different character (I think that's all keys).

I don't know what (if anything specific) starts it (the fault is
always absent after a reboot); I also don't know what stops it - after
a while, though it _may_ well be something I do rather than just
random, I find I can type ) again. I can paste a ) no problem [my
signature contains at least one, so finding one to copy's no problem),
but obviously that's tedious.

Has anyone else experienced this weird one? (Does anyone know what its
cause is?)

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Try typing the ASCII code for it. Press the Alt key then enter 041 and
see if it shows on the screen.

That only works if you enter it on the numeric keypad. Which smaller
laptops do not have (except via an obscure fiddle).

May be that something remapped the key.

Well, it would have to be something that (a) just cuts in after a while,
(b) gets cleared.

Open Control Panel and select Clock, Language and Region

Under Region and Language select Change Keyboards or other input methods

On the Formats tab Additional settings and click on the Reset
button (bottom right)

See if that doesn't restore the ) key function.

I've only got one keyboard (UK English) layout.

I've taken (ITIW) Mayayana's suggestion of getting a keycode logger. Of
course, since I've installed that, the problem is not showing itself!
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