"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.

May be that something remapped the key.

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.

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Bob S.