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I've got a problem that occured to me out of nowhere.
Today in the morning, as I logged in to my computer at work I cannot input Polish diacritical signs. For example rAlt + A should give Ą but instead it gives no character. On the other hand : rAlt + rCrtl + A gives the expected Ą sign. Also another weird thing: before the WindowsKey + R shortcut opened the Run command without any lag or nothing. Today it opens the menu at first, after that proceeds to Run command.
I've checked every possible language setting. Everything is fine. Keyboard layout - Polish (Programmer) also is fine. Checked my graphics driver (since they can have some issues with shortcuts) and nothing. The OS is malware free. Any possible issue with shortcuts checked with no result.
My computer: Samsung NP550P7C, Windows 8.1 Enterprise (after every possible update).
I hope there is another way than reinstalling the OS since I have alot of software to be reinstalled with it to enable me to work.
Piotr Truszkowski
Posted 2015-06-16T10:26:19.577
Reputation: 191
Have you installed or updated any software recently? – gronostaj – 2015-06-16T10:39:17.350
1Do you have any Remote Desktop sessions open in the background? If yes, switch to any of these sessions and back and check if now you are able to type diacritical characters normally. – MBu – 2015-06-16T10:40:41.540
@gronostaj : no. yesterday I've downloaded VNC Viewer but without any installation. I've did a massive amount of updates today but it was after I've noticed the issue.
I need to state this that I've rebooted my system countless times today... with success sadly. – Piotr Truszkowski – 2015-06-16T10:44:25.213
@MBu : I do not have any Remote connections active at the time but... Is it possible that some connections could have been terminated in a wrong way so the problem persists even without a connection ? – Piotr Truszkowski – 2015-06-16T10:44:28.640
@PiotrTruszkowski: No, terminated RDP connections should not affect you in any way and you have already rebooted your PC. The symptoms you described are identical to my problem with losing Polish diacritical characters when I have an active RDP session open in background. Did you try to replace the keyboard? – MBu – 2015-06-16T12:24:13.783
Another try: do you use VirtualBox? If yes, then read here: http://blog.oliver-mueller.com/-102
– MBu – 2015-06-16T12:58:27.683@MBu I don't use VirtualBox. I've tried multiple USB keyboards to eliminate mechanical failure. I've also tried to remove keyboard from device manager and reboot. No success. Tried to reinstall graphics driver (NVIDIA GTX 650M) - nothing. Tried common shortcuts to change keyboard layout like lCrtl + lShift, Shift + Shift and WindowsKeys + Space - nothing helped. I'm currently gathering install files since OS reinstall seems inevitable... damn... – Piotr Truszkowski – 2015-06-16T13:16:54.667
Same problem here. Win 8.1 home. They stoped working today. rCTRL+rALT works fine. I think this is windows update related. – None – 2015-06-16T18:49:16.070
I've confirmed with Samsung support that this is Windows Update related. I've started with a clean Win 8.1 Enterprise installation and tried to figure out which of the updates makes this happen. After about 140 I've gave up... – Piotr Truszkowski – 2015-06-16T18:53:46.907
It still is. I've started with a clean system installation and after updates it still occures. – Piotr Truszkowski – 2015-06-16T20:52:51.797