My keyboard is messed up can't do the at sign

LubiLou

I have had this problem for the last couple of days and I'm not sure why it's happened.

When I try to type the at sign I get '
When I try to get the question mark sign I get /

Any ideas, it's driving me mad.

I have checked the keyboard language and that is set to english uk and I have run out of things to try.

Many thanks.

debitcardmayhem

Have you got caps lock on ?

vale46_2

pressing key gives ' hold shift down then press the key it should give @
same with the other key
pressing it gives / hold shift down then press the key it should give ?

LubiLou

Hi, no caps lock is off.

LubiLou

Thanks Vale I know that hun he he it's just it's not working when I do that and only gives ' and / even when holding down shift so it's as if I have changed settings somehow.

Lifeforms

Sticky keys? (not literally, figuratively in the windows sense!)

Try hitting shift key 5 times or more and a diaglog should pop up asking if you want to disable sticky keys. Select yes. Then perm disable them

vale46_2

Ah ok
hold down both left and right shift key at the same time (did this for several seconds), it somehow solved the problem. Hopefully that fixed the issue. Also, go to control panel, click on accessibility options..in the keyboard tab, click on the settings buttons for sticky keys, filter keys and toggle keys and deselect the option to use shortcut

this worked for some ppl with this prob

Dussed

Have you tried pressing shift + 2 (@ on us keyboard layout)? Your keyboard layout might have changed for no apparent reason.

Kernel_Sanders

I'm feeling generous today, so you can have mine..... @
Just copy and paste

poppellerant

Sounds like you have the wrong regional settings, and have it set to English (US) rather than English (UK).

Assuming you use Windows 7:-
Start menu > Control Panel > under the section Clock, Lanugage, and Region click on Change keyboards or other input methods > click on the Change keyboards button > I'm guess you will two languages there, English (UK) and English (US) > Remove English (US) leaving only UK left and press Apply.

Hopefully you now have a UK keyboard again!

Something else to try:
Start menu > Control Panel > under the section Clock, Lanugage, and Region click on Change keyboards or other input methods > click on the Location tab at the top > change Current location to United Kingdom.