Problem with keys

[John]

Only for the last couple of days, my Page Up, Page Down and all 4 arrows
keys on the keyboard have not had any effect when viewing any website. The
sidebar does still work normally.
I'm not aware I've altered any settings. So I apologise if this is a
problem with IE rather than WindowsXP, but would appreciate any advice on
getting these keys working again.


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Regards John
Reverse"jaykaybee"to reply

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"John" <Jaykaybee@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:eYmdnbAjo6lBefPRnZ2dnUVZ8oOdnZ2d@bt.com...
> Only for the last couple of days, my Page Up, Page Down and all 4 arrows
> keys on the keyboard have not had any effect when viewing any website. The
> sidebar does still work normally.
> I'm not aware I've altered any settings. So I apologise if this is a
> problem with IE rather than WindowsXP, but would appreciate any advice on
> getting these keys working again.
>
>
> --
> Regards John
> Reverse"jaykaybee"to reply

The first step in such cases is to test things with the on-screen keyboard,
osk.exe.
The second step is to try a different keyboard.

 

[8os.8@invalid.nomail]

20 Aug 2010,"Pegasus [MVP]" <news@microsoft.com> in
news:uFkPRrKQLHA.456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

>
> The first step in such cases is to test things with the on-screen
> keyboard, osk.exe.
> The second step is to try a different keyboard.

could also see if keys do nothing when in notepad or something other than ie (even a
folder in explorer)
startup notepad. fill the window with a lot of enter keys, but intersperse with a few
"random" letters. once the typing becomes long enough, try the up down etc keys.

since more than one key has trouble, i doubt the problem is caused by bits of junk
between the keys (toast crumbs!), but that would be easy to fix...