The keyboard is the most important component of the computer. It helps a computer understand our language and is one of the greatest achievements since the first typewriter in 1868.
Therefore, it is very important that you know how to use your keyboard to its full potential and how you can reset it whenever you face any problem.
Before we start learning how we can reset our keyboards, we will briefly learn what are the most common types of keyboards used by people around the world.
- Multimedia keyboard: This is a keyboard that has all the necessary keys for multimedia. It has all the multimedia buttons like pause, play, volume up, volume down and other buttons.
- Virtual keyboard: The explanation is in the name itself, the keyboard that we find in smartphones, which we can upload and download at any time.
- Magic Keyboard: These keyboards are battery-operated and are made exclusively by APPLE.
- QWERTY keyboard: The most used by all of us. The name QUERTY comes from the layout of the keys on the keyboard for ease of use.
- Mechanical Keyboard – These keyboards have the most interesting and fun keys to work on. All the keys below this keyboard have springs underneath which make them easy to use.
Not just these, but there are several other keyboards, some of which are even specifically designed to target certain groups of people like gamers.
All these keyboards can be mainly grouped into wired and wireless keyboards.
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Reasons why you should reset your keyboard immediately
Whether it’s wireless or wired keyboards, both are machines and while we use them, they come with their own problems.
Reason 1: One of the keys does not work. Many users find that their ‘p’ key doesn’t work while others do. This is a software issue and can be resolved by resetting the keyboard.
Reason 2: Sometimes wireless keyboards behave stubbornly and refuse to connect to the computer. A reboot can resolve this issue.
Reason 3 – Backlit keyboards lose illumination making it difficult for us to use the light feature. Resetting this keyboard can restore the light.
How to perform a keyboard test
To detect the actual problem with your keyboard, you can perform a keyboard test using an online keyboard test tool.
- Visit keyboardtester.io and run the tester.
- Here press all the keys one by one and check whether they work or not.
If the keys are faulty and have problems, the keyboard tester will not show the pressed keys on the screen.
In that case, you should follow this complete keyboard troubleshooting to get it working properly.
How to reset your keyboard
You can try to reset the keyboard hardware or software depending on the problem you are facing.
This is how you can hard reset your wireless and wired keyboard:
hard reset
wired keyboard
Step 1: For a wired connection, turn off the keyboard.
Step 2 – Hold down the ‘ESC’ key and while doing so, reconnect the keyboard to the computer.
Step 3: After a few seconds, release the ‘ESC’ key; If the keyboard light flashes, it means your keyboard has been reset.
Wireless keyboard (Bluetooth keyboard)
Step 1 Turn off the wireless keyboard.
Step 2: Hold down the ‘ESC’ key while turning on the keyboard.
Step 3: After a few seconds, release the key and your keyboard, if the light flashes, will reboot.
If this doesn’t work for you, be sure to update or reinstall your Windows keyboard drivers.
soft reset
There are two ways to soft reset the keyboard. One method is to remove the keyboard from the Bluetooth device on the computer and reconnect it.
Another is to reinstall the keyboard drivers. Here we will see how to update keyboard drivers for Windows and Mac.
windows keyboard
Step 1: Click on the Windows icon and open ‘Device Manager’.
Step 2 – Find “Keyboard” and select it.
Step 3: Under ‘Keyboard’ you will see the name of the keyboard you want to reset. Click on it.
Step 4: Once selected, you will see a red cross at the top; select it
Step 5: Next, select the keyboard name once and install or update it this time.
Step 6: Your PC will check for updates and reinstall them. This should solve your problem.
mac keyboard
Step 1: Go to ‘System Settings’.
Step 2 Select “Keyboard” from the menu.
Step 3 – Then select ‘Modifier Keys’ at the bottom right corner.
Step 4: Click “Restore Defaults” and confirm with OK.
Step 5 – Go to the ‘Text’ tab and remove the text replacements.
Step 6: Go to the ‘Shortcuts’ tab and click ‘Restore Defaults’. What we’re doing here is setting the keyboard to the default.
Step 7: Next, go to ‘Accessibility’ from System Settings. Press the keyboard and cancel the sticky boxes.
Step 8: Finally, restart your Mac.
However, if you don’t know how to connect Magic Keyboard to your Mac, you can check Apple’s website here.
Conclusion
The steps above should help you resolve any issues you’re having with your keyboard, whether it’s wired, wireless, Windows, or Mac.
We hope that you have found this article useful and informative in any way possible.
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Source: HIS Education