# Win XP Pro keyboard

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-xp-pro-keyboard/306270>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 31, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-xp-pro-keyboard/306270 "2005-05-31T20:59:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-xp-pro-keyboard/306270/1 "2005-05-31T20:59:44Z")

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Limited account Fred has a kb that won’t respond.  
Admin account Sally on the same machine has a kb that works fine.  
Any ideas?  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-xp-pro-keyboard/306270/2 "2005-05-31T21:09:43Z")

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Just a stab: Try the “Keyboard” icon in the Control Panel. I would imagine it could be set differently for different users. Mine says “Standard 101/102-key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard.”

No idea what you’ll find there, but hopefully it will be able to be fixed there. If not, maybe someone else here has a better idea.  
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-xp-pro-keyboard/306270/3 "2005-06-01T00:23:36Z")

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If the keyboard is a new one and it installed special dirvers when it was first attached to the machine, and if that was done when Sally was logged on, and if the installer routine was stupid and put the dirver file(s) inside Sally’s user proffile instead of system32 or the all users profile, then you’d get the symptoms yu desribe. But it would have been that way from teh git-go.

Did this just start? If so, what else might you have changed in the the way of security since the last time it worked for Fred?

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win-xp-pro-keyboard/306270/4 "2005-06-01T00:32:02Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Did this just start?

Yeah, they’ve had this machine for a couple of years, running only the limited account.