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Disabled Keyboard
I just received a new HP Spectre laptop today and I'm having a very strange problem with the keyboard. I go through the normal Windows setup and the keyboard works fine. As soon as I finish Windows setup, the keyboard stops working. When I reboot the laptop, the keyboard works to let me enter my PIN, but as soon as I login, it stops working. I have both an external USB keyboard and the standard built-in laptop keyboard and both do the same thing. I went into Windows Recovery and completely reinstalled Windows from scratch and the same thing happens.
I think something is disabling the keyboard - perhaps it thinks it is in tablet mode when it is actually in laptop mode. Any ideas?
Thanks!
EDIT:
I solved my problem! I did a web search and found this article:
http://windowsreport.com/laptop-keyboard-not-working-windows-10/amp/
Basically it’s an “Ease of Access” setting. If you have “filter keyboard” turned on it causes this problem. I have no idea how it got turned on but as soon as I turned it off, it started working!
Last edited by chuckcobb3; 17 Nov 2017 at 18:05. Reason: Found solution