My Alt Gr Key Not Working

coris

<div class="IPBDescription">on the administrator account</div> Hi <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Im on my laptop now, and after the network technician ghosted the computer (basiclly format and the basic applications), my AltGr key suddenly stopped working when I'm logged onto the Administrator account, but when Im on the network account it works fine. Anyone has a solution, or knows what is causing this?:/

CForrester

First, go to the Control Panel. Open "Regional and Language Options", then go to the second tab. Click the "Details..." button there. Click "Keyboard", then click "Add". Check off "Keyboard layout/IME" and select "Canadian French" from the list. I'm assuming that you're using a Canadian Bilingual keyboard, since you want an AltGr key to work.

esuna

What does the Alt Gr key <i>actually do</i>? I'd comment on it not working, however, i don't <i>actually</i> know the desired effect of it when working......

coris

I figuered it out by myself, our fscked it-technician had used a third-party program to set it to act as a windowsbutton, since we havent got a windowsbutton. Stupid thinkpad.

Problem solved, thanks for the help anyway <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Feel free to remove this thread or something <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

CForrester

<!--QuoteBegin-esuna+May 12 2004, 06:29 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (esuna @ May 12 2004, 06:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What does the Alt Gr key <i>actually do</i>? I'd comment on it not working, however, i don't <i>actually</i> know the desired effect of it when working...... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Canadian Bilingual keyboards have an ALT GR key because some of the keys have three functions instead of just two. (Like 1/!, 2/@, etc...) You press ALT GR to toggle these, like you press Shift to toggle the secondary function.

coris

<!--QuoteBegin-CForrester+May 12 2004, 02:27 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CForrester @ May 12 2004, 02:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-esuna+May 12 2004, 06:29 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (esuna @ May 12 2004, 06:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What does the Alt Gr key <i>actually do</i>? I'd comment on it not working, however, i don't <i>actually</i> know the desired effect of it when working...... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Canadian Bilingual keyboards have an ALT GR key because some of the keys have three functions instead of just two. (Like 1/!, 2/@, etc...) You press ALT GR to toggle these, like you press Shift to toggle the secondary function. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
OR a swedish keyboard such as mine <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Cyndane

What about an egyptian keyboard? Hehe