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Laptop keyboards broken/double key after Windows updates - Hell Corner
** This is an informative post , if you are just trying to help you can just skip this post unless you want to add to contents .
I have had a problem losing 2 laptop keyboards to 2 consecutive windows updates where I attempted to tackle the issue and here are my findings (since I am starting to see this problem escalating to so many users of the forum and online) :
1 - If you are like me with the habit of leaving laptop running over night for downloads , encoding , etc there might rise issue of overheat for prolonged times after windows updates resulting from re-indexing files / search optimization (Superfetch) , unscheduled defrags , re-optimizing executable files (Prefetch / Superfetch) , creating a restore point , antivirus getting all spooky from the massive system change ... The result is , your system keeps running at extreme heat condition for like a couple of days after the update , where the keyboard being placed right above the CPU/HDD would undergo similar condition to the pancake while heating on the pan where eventually your keyboard gets fried . Fried keyboards do not end up 100% dead but they may - well - just act bizarcal like skipping keys or double keying where you may notice that most keys with problems are the ones right above heat spots (CPU / Sink Rod / HDD / SSD) .
2 - So yes your keyboard is lets say "busted" hardware wise , changing it would instantly solve the problem , however the problem may rise again if you did not manage to clear the heat issue .
3 - Having a cooling pad / vacuum fan does not save you , just makes it take a little longer while .
So bottom line is :
I suggest you disable superfetch / prefetch / system restore / defrag schedule / microsoft experience program (from task scheduler) and try to run them manually one at a time later to avoid the "Pan Effect" Microsoft Windows updates have .
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Last edited by nIGHTmAYOR; 10 Oct 2018 at 11:19.