Alt Button Not Working

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Alt Button Not Working

Anonymous

Hello,

I don't normally use the Alt button, but recently I've been wanting to use it more and more for ease of access with commands such as Alt-Tab, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Win-Tab, and others. However, I noticed that both of my Alt buttons on my keyboard don't register whenever they are pressed.

Thus far, I've tried:

Going into regedit and fixing the AltTabSettings (did not work)
Restarting my computer multiple times (including a clean boot)
Looking for a driver update for my keyboard (said it was completely up to date)

So, I'm very perplexed as to what to do now. I would love to be able to use the Alt key for easy access and the entire functionality of Windows 8.1.

Thanks for any and all help!

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Answer 1

what is the make and model of your PC?

Also make sure that region and language is set to English.

Go to start - settings - time and language - region and language.

What is the your default keyboard?

see if it works on the online keyboard.

Try this, go to search and type osk.exe and hit enter.

this will open a virtual keyboard, see if the alt key works there.

if it does then it is hardware issue on your keyboard.

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