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Keyboard suddenly stopped working once Windows 7 launches
Hello windows gurus.
I believe this is a setting problem, but can't figure it out.
Dell Studio 1749 laptop running win7 pro 64
I was browsing the internet with IE10, had a bunch of other stuff open (xcel, quickbooks, other software).
All of a sudden, I must of hit some kind of key combo, because the scroll wheel on the mouse started zooming in and out the active windows instead of scrolling them up and down. Also IE10 looked different, the tabs on top "dissapeared" until I hovered the mouse up top, and then they popped back down. Kind of like the Dell Dock.
Then when I typed in a key different windows would open. I believe "i" opened IE favorites, and some other keys did different things.
The keyboard did not work in the sense that I could not type in url's into IE, or information into exel cells, notepad, etc.
I clicked around in control pannel thinking somehoe I activated some global stickey keys, but couldn't find anything.
Num lock and caps lock still activate, and if I reboot, I can login into windows with my password, so I know the keyboard is still connected and working.
Device manager says the device is working properly.
Please help?????
Thansk in advance. I know this is something stupid.