Keyboard Keys Randomly Swapped

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So, I have a very strange keyboard issue. I have not installed or changed anything on my Windows 10 Toshiba Laptop (there was a windows 10 update though), but two days ago I noticed that some of the keys stopped working. When I opened the On-Screen Keyboard, however, I discovered that the keys had actually been remapped.

  • ALT got changed to SHIFT
  • SHIFT changed to ALT
  • Fn (Function) key changed to CTRL
  • CTRL did NOT change to Fn however. So I can't really use that key unless I use the on-screen keyboard.
  • Windows Keys also didn't get remapped to anything and does nothing.
  • Arrow keys also not working, but NumPad Arrow keys work as long as Num Lock is not on.
  • Right ALT, CTRL and SHIFT don't work at all, only the left ones got remapped.
  • Options/Menu key (right-click shortcut button I believe?) does nothing.
  • Everything else works as it should.

Did I accidentally hit a keyboard shortcut? I've tried to uninstall the keyboard driver and restart, didn't work.

At first Windows crashed and didn't restart properly. After a second restart, windows managed to install keyboard driver without crashing, but the issue was not resolved.

I've messed around with the keyboard language settings, like changing it to English-Canada then back to US, but that didn't work either.

This is a very strange issue that I have not encountered before. How can I fix it?

Amazon

Posted 2019-10-11T05:05:31.620

Reputation: 11

Related: The Ultimate Guide To Keyboard Remapping. Check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout registry key, Scancode Map value.

– JosefZ – 2019-11-06T19:57:58.797

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