Ctrl Keys don't work in Win XP

Question

I recently reinstalled Win XP Home on my Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop computer.  I reformated the hard drive and installed the OS from scratch.  Once the OS was installed, I also loaded support for Asian languages and installed the Japanese keyboard.

Unfortunately I have discovered that neither Ctrl key works on my keyboard.  All other keys are functional but without the Ctrl key I cannot use many useful shortcut keys such as Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, etc.  I can use copy and paste by using the right mouse key.

I have tried uninstalling the keyboard and rebooting, but this had no effect.  I also removed the Japanese keyboard and reinstalled the keyboard driver, again without any effect.

Any solution or suggestions offered are very much appreciated.

Thank you,

David Lessmann

Answer 1

XP Newsgroups:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Above link is to XP Newsgroups.

There is a list of the various XP Newsgroups down the left-hand column there.

You will get the assistance that you need there.

These are Vista Forums.

Cheers

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Mick Murphy - Microsoft Partner