Strange keyboard issue?

randompixie

Hi everyone. 
I'm having a strange issue with my acer keyboard. 
When I turned my laptop on earlier it was working perfect, and then, I must have clicked something and suddenly my keyboard just lost it. 
At first it would only type the vowels (but would type them like á é í ó ú) and typing the number 4 becomes the € symbol.

This led me to believe that the alt and/or ctrl key must be stuck but after a really good cleaning I am 100% sure that isn't the issue. 

Now the keyboard is doing something different, for example, I'm currently in the control panel, and when I type the letter H (which previously wasn't working at all), it brings up the help menu, The letter E brings up the edit menu, ect. the vowels are no longer working now either. 

I've looked online myself for a solution, cleaning the keyboard, checking the sticky keys, using a usb keyboard (which I thought would work, but it just done the same thing as the keyboard on my laptop is doing, which I thought was really odd). 

Has anybody ever encounted this? I'm really hoping this is fixable  

Any questions, please feel free to ask!
Thanks in advance!

Alan-London

The symptoms you describe are the result of pressing Ctrl+Alt+vowel. The Ctrl+Alt addition also produces the third character on relevant keys - € and ¦.
Given that the problem is repeatable using an external keyboard suggests that the issue is not with the keyboard but software.

It may be worthwhile checking all settings/menus in 'Region and Language'. Perhaps try switching keyboards and immediately switching back.
Also confirm that both 'Change Key Sequence' fields are set to 'Not Assigned'.