Robert in CA wrote:
What I did was close the application vs exit since there
was none then I clicked the icon in the lower left and
selected shutdown since there was no restart option.

I restored the 780 back to 12-1-20 but if I have to restore
again (which I hope I don't) could we use a more recent
update like 3-4-21 so I don't have to do all the updates all
over again in trying to fix this. However, if I do a more
recent update won't I also have to adjust the partitions?

Instead, how about I create a new backup from 12-1-20
and restore to that instead after I've done all the updates?
That would save me from doing all the updates every time.

Whether it's the keyboard or software it's strange the same
thing has happened on both computers with the backspace
key and strange that the messed up WBM keeps coming back.
I'll try the command one more time after all these updates
finish to see if it works.

I still would like to buy a new keyboard and test it, we wouldn't
loose anything by doing so and if it doesn't work I still would
have a backup keyboard. I would still like your views on the
ones I selected.

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert


At the moment, to me, you've tested a fair number of old backups
and not found a cure for the backspace key problem. This hardly
gives the old restore, anything to recommend it.

Consequently, moving to a more modern one makes sense,
even the "current" one you made before this started
would be sufficient. Then the number of updates would
be minimal.

I'm still trying to find a way of tracing keypress activity.

And you can help, by going through your Program Files
and thinking about anything you've added, that uses
hotkeys. Using a backspace key for a hotkey, seems pretty
bizarre. But what do I know.

Since you've gone backwards a few months now, this is
something you must have added a while ago. For example,
an image editor might have a hotkey to do a "screencapture",
and that is set to backspace right now.

Your Sharpkeys test, shows it's not a key that was remapped
into oblivion. You can totally disable a key by mapping it
off in there. But your table is clean, so that's not the
mechanism.

Paul