[j3mma1]

I have a 2 year old sharp laptop with windows xp. It worked fine up until about 4 months ago, when all of a sudden i had numerous problems:

1) the keyboard doesn't work, only the vowels appear on screen and are accented, none of the other keys (including enter etc)work
2) When you double click on desktop icons the properties box opens and not the program
3) Microsoft Office (2000 professional) programs do not run properly, cannot access any options on taskbar etc
4) It wont let me do a system restore, the mouse will not click on ok, to allow me to continue in the menu

Most other programs are running fine.
I have rebooted my computer (With restore discs) twice now, and each time it has worked fine for about a month and then reverted back to exactly the same problems .
this time, it is switching between working and not working, sometimes it works perfectly, but not for long

HELP!!!!
dont know much about computers, and no-one ive spoken so far seems to have any ideas
any suggestions would be appreciated

jemma

[ross_aveling]

[cowtowne]

Hi

I saw that once, only certain letters would transpose to odd but predictable stuff.

I had selected two 'eligible' keyboard sets (somewhere) at one point, and the 'alternate' was being used and was quite different than my expectation.

If this doesn't point you towards the solution, I can't guess at what's up. Try Fonts, Regional Settings, email settings, keyboard, and languages. One of them should help.

Good Luck,

JEFF from cowtowne.