Help needed to 'Undo' a registry tweak.

[Sanjay]

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

; Keyboard F-Lock ENABLED
;Reverses F-Lock key for new Microsoft and Logitech keyboards (Not for use on Laptops)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,19,00,00,00,3b,00,3b,e0,3c,00,08,e0,\
 3d,00,07,e0,3e,00,3e,e0,3f,00,3f,e0,40,00,40,e0,41,00,41,e0,42,00,42,e0,43,\
 00,43,e0,44,00,23,e0,57,00,57,e0,58,00,58,e0,3b,e0,3b,00,08,e0,3c,00,07,e0,\
 3d,00,3e,e0,3e,00,3f,e0,3f,00,40,e0,40,00,41,e0,41,00,42,e0,42,00,43,e0,43,\
 00,23,e0,44,00,57,e0,57,00,58,e0,58,00,00,00,00,00

I use the above registry tweak in my unattended CD and it works great for me with my 'Microsoft Wireless Natural Mutltimedia Keyboard'. I inadvertantly included this in an Unattended CD I made for my sister who has the 'Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000' which does not have a 'F Lock' key, I think the above Registry entry ends up disabling the Funtion Keys on her keyboard, which is why they don't work.

Th what needis a way to 'reverse' this entry in the registry so that the function keys will work again. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Sanjay

[Sanjay]

There used to be a time when people actually helped out on this forum. Now it seems that only a closed group of people interact in each other's posts and that's it. I cna't believe that no one here has any ideas to solve this.

[Sanjay]

I am sure somebody must have some ideas to solve this.

[gunsmokingman]

have you tried to, delete the key manually but beyond that I do not know what else to do

[Sanjay]

have you tried to, delete the key manually but beyond that I do not know what else to do

Thanks for responding. Actually I was leaving that as a last alternate since I am not sure how deleting the entire key might effect the functioning of the computer. Don't want to end up with more problems than there are now.

[venim]

Hello,

You can always backup your registry (before any change).

Indeed if you delete it, it might work.

Have you tried to install microsoft's driver of the keyboard?

I think it is inteltype or something like that.

Hope I've helped you.

[mc134]

I hope its not too late to fix your problem. To fix the keyboard just delete the Scancode Map key under Keyboard Layout.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]

It should look like that.

[Sanjay]

Thanks for the help guys the problem is now resolved. The Microsoft software keyboard was already installed but using that to reset to defaults was also of no help. Finally I just deleted the 'Scancode Map' key under '[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]' as recommended by 'mc134', this resolved the issue. Ofcourse the keys only became usable after a reboot.

Once again thanks for all the help.

[mc134]

I'm glad i could be some help.