tabath Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 (edited) Hi, The u key on my dell laptop has stopped working, I've taken the cap off and checked the retainer which is ok, taken the silicon cap off which is ok, it seems to be a problem with the contact being made underneath but I don't know why. Anyway found a nifty utility that would alter the registry for me and map the u to an alternative ket. In my case I picked the right shift key. Things is it didn't work , I've gone to microsoft site and read their scan code mapper for windows help page:(http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/w2kscan-map.mspx) I looked at the changes tweakkey had made to the rgistry and it seemed to me that the third DWORD value( number of mappings ) should be 03 00 00 00 and not the 02 00 00 00 that tweak key had put in. Here is the full scan code map data that is in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 36 00 16 00 00 00 00 00 Anyway still no joy. Has anyone her done anything similar and if so can you help? Cheers Edited March 13, 2010 by tabath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 (edited) Use the on screen keyboard until you buy a new one. Open the run prompt and type in "osk" Edited March 13, 2010 by digip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabath Posted March 14, 2010 Author Share Posted March 14, 2010 Use the on screen keyboard until you buy a new one. Open the run prompt and type in "osk" Thanks digip, will do that in the meantime but have become quite interested in this from a fun POV,thinking about a nifty little utility to screw around with mates computers by remapping various keys:) Just for a bit of fun of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Thanks digip, will do that in the meantime but have become quite interested in this from a fun POV,thinking about a nifty little utility to screw around with mates computers by remapping various keys:) Just for a bit of fun of course Could change their keyboards default country/region mapping, which would move things around a bit too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkmist! Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 http://bit.ly/cwnItT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 In the mean time you could use an external portable keyboard, while you get internal repaired. I know it may not sound very convenient but should be good enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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