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Keyboard types wrong characters in Windows Explorer specifically

Iwaslazkis

Commendable
Aug 1, 2016
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Basically My keyboard is typing the wrong characters, but only in windows explorer (I'm in Windows 7 by the way). The weird thing is that this only happens to all symbols except for *, (, ), &, $, %, !, -, _, +, =, ;, and :. All other programs, including ones from microsoft, work fine. I tried doing fn + num lock but to no avail. I have also tried changing my language, but that didn't work either.
Examples of this are:

  • ■ " ' " turning into " ` "
    ■ " ] " turning into " ¸ "
    ■ " [ " turning into " ^ "
    ■ " / " turning into " é "
    ■ " ? " turning into " É "
    ■ " ~ " turning into " | "
 


nevermind, it works fine now. I have no idea why, but it's fine now, but thanks for trying to help me.