A clear example of all this can be found when we work with secondary hardware devices that we connect to our equipment to improve its functionality. For example, it is increasingly common to connect, through a USB port, a secondary keyboard to our laptop. This may happen because the keyboard included in the equipment itself begins to fail, or its keys simply do not convince us.
There are many who prefer to use a mechanical keyboard or with RGB lights that are not offered by the one pre-installed on the laptop. Hence they choose to purchase a component with these characteristics and connect it via USB. However, sometimes its operation may not be as good as we would like.
In fact, it may happen that some common functions that we carry out daily in Windows suddenly stop working. This can be a serious annoyance both personally and professionally if we need to use the equipment at that moment. For example, when trying copy and paste all types of content between Windows programs, the keys we use for it, Ctrl + C and Ctrl + Vnow they don’t work.
Once it has been verified that the problem is not caused by the programs or the operating system itself, it becomes clear that the failure is in the keyboard itself.
Solution to laptop USB keyboard failure
And not only that, since the movement that we normally carry out between the running applications with the Alt + Tab key combination. This is something that most users use constantly to move between programs in Windows.
But due to the failure that we mentioned with the USB keyboard that we just connected to the laptop, this movement between the window thumbnails, surprisingly, is carried out in the opposite way than usual. At first it may seem inconsequential, but if we work quickly with the team, we will realize that it is another major annoyance.
Even after restarting the computer or turning it off completely, the errors we mentioned persist. However, we must keep in mind that to fix all of this that we are telling you about, we have an easy solution. Before we go crazy and start reinstalling drivers, we should do a preliminary check.
And some keyboards that we connect via USB to our laptop, they start to have these strange behaviors with keyboard shortcuts for a simple reason. Perhaps without realizing it we have activated the caps lock keyand it remains in operation even after restarting the computer.
This is unexpected behavior on keyboards and that is why we have not realized it. But the truth is that by simply deactivating the caps lock through the keyboard that we have connected to our laptop, the errors with the key combinations in Windows They will be resolved immediately.