I'm not sure where to post this because it is relevant in several forums. The problem is that my keyboard has stopped working in FF and IE, but only in Windows 7. In order to post this I have had to use Tor as my browser. Any suggestions?
As Corday has said, In FF, go to thetoolbar/Help/Restart with Add-ons Disabled. Then Tools/Add-Ons under Extensions and Plugins remove any suspicious add-ons
The strange thing is that it's affecting both FF and IE, but not Tor. I've got over the problem by booting into a clone I made yesterday, but I'd still like to find out why it happened. Incidentally, I've still got the same add-ons running in FF.
Your clone may be missing some system files.
On this system, go to Start/Search and type CMD, Right click the CMD results and Run As Administrator. In the Elevated Command Prompt, type SFC /scannow and press enter. This will replace any missing or corrupted system files.
Seagate Tools only works on Seagate drives. My main drive is a Samsung SSD. I've run Samsung Magician and it reports no faults. I'm going to overwrite it with an up-to-date clone of the clone I'm now running.
If that doesn't work it would be the greatest mystery in "computerdom". How a clone isn't a clone. :grin: Sorry, when I checked your specs I only looked at the first HD.
No problem, my main drive must have got corrupted just after I made the last clone. Now that I know the clone is OK, I'll clone it back onto the main drive, then I'll boot into the main drive. Simples!
Hi, might be too late for this, if not it would help for some other issues, open a cmd as admin on both drives (the errant hd and the clone) and at the prompt copy paste:-
I've just reinstalled FireFox and the keyboard now works in there, but still not in IE. I've reinstalled IE, but I need to reboot, but can't just yet because I'm still running the SeaTools long check.
If the reinstallation of IE works, it still doesn't explain why the problem happened to both FF and IE at the same time.
EDIT: I've now rebooted, but my keyboard still not working in IE. At least all my hard drives passed Seagate's long test.
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