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re: Invalid keyboard code specified
Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:45 am
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Posted by Sebastian42 (10 messages posted)


Thank you Ed. I will follow this up for interest, but it is now of 'academic interest' only, as the error message disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared !


On Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 11:44 am, Ed wrote:
>Under Windows ME, the keyboard is configured by settings in the [keyboard] section
>of the file SYSTEM.INI (located in the C:\WINDOWS directory), which specifies the
>name and location of the driver file needed by the system.
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>That section will say something like this -
>
>[keyboard]
>keyboard.dll=
>oemansi.bin=xlat437.bin
>subtype=
>type=4
>
>Check your SYSTEM.INI file. From your description of the problem, the chances are
>there is a mis-match between the details in the [keyboard] section in it and the
>actual driver file that's on your disk.
>
>Perhaps the file refered to by the section is missing from the folder C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
>? Copying it back to there (e.g. from a .CAB file in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS) would
>maybe cure the problem.
>
>
>See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
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re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Ed: Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 11:44 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Invalid keyboard code specified (Sebastian42: Thu, Feb 25, 2010, 2:07 am)
-re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Steve: Thu, Feb 25, 2010, 6:31 am)
-re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Sebastian42: Thu, Feb 25, 2010, 7:00 am)
-re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Ricer46: Fri, Feb 26, 2010, 4:20 pm)
-re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Sebastian42: Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 3:58 am)
-re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Steve: Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 7:39 am)
*re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Sebastian42: Sun, Feb 28, 2010, 3:31 am)
*re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Alan Masterman: Wed, Mar 3, 2010, 5:00 am)
-re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Ed: Sat, Mar 20, 2010, 11:44 am)
*re: Invalid keyboard code specified (Sebastian42: Sun, Mar 21, 2010, 2:45 am)
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