bigkev38

I have a strange problem with a laptop I'm attempting to repair. The keyboard when pressed produces not only the key pressed but the one next to it too or one within a key or two away i.e. if i press the f key I get fg if I press the h key I get hm some other keys also do strange things like the backspace does a + sign etc... I have plugged in a USB keyboard and it works fine, I have replaced the laptop keyboard for a new one and I get the same problem. Just in case I got sent a faulty new keyboard I took one off of another working Vostro 1510 that I have and used that and got the same problem. I have updated the BIOS to the latest version to no avail...I'm guessing its a knackered motherboard or someone spilt liquid into it, but I thought I'd see if any of you had any other ideas before sending it to laptop heaven by way of the bin... Thank you

Thank you for your reply.... I could yes, but this would not be an ideal solution as every time the user logged on somewhere else the All Users desktop folder would be emptied. When an admin logged on to that same machine later the desktop would be empty. I would rather find a solution that prevents them from seeing the all users icons without deleting them all from every computer in school that they logged on to.

when using roaming profiles my users get desktop icons that they have created + whatever icons are in the all users folder. I want them to only see the icons that they create and not the ones in all users. I have both win7 and winXP machines and need a solution for both (perhaps a GPO or logon script), so wherever they log on they only see their own icons regardless of what is already on the local machine. Thank you