I am in a pickle with my client laptop. I tried to set up remote desktop last night and was successful in seeing my laptop on my pc BUT.....I have done something in the remote desktop settings on my laptop and have lost some of the functions of my keyboard keys! About 10 of them have changed and I cant type anything properly to edit anything! Can anyone tell me how I go back to having no saved RDP file (now default)and thus wipe out these settings that have caused the keyboard key malfuction please? I have scoured the internet but I seem to be going round in circles.I tried restore in windows but it didnt help.
many thanks
Bridiebee

Did you accidentally enable the numeric keypad? Fn NumLock or similar. In some computers it is a BIOS setting so restoring windows won't help.

You could simply delete the default.rdp file, but I don't think this is your problem. Have you tried RDPing from another computer to see if the problem is on the host or the client?

As wizard-fred suggested it might have something to do with the keypad settings on the laptop - what keys are not functioning correctly?

There are no settings I know of in RD that would cause this behavior.

Michael J

I am not honestly sure what happened! I was setting up the remote desktop on my client laptop. I brought up remote connection but was having problems as it kept coming back with this server has no server terminal when I was trying to get my host pc to call in the remote box. I didn't know what that meant exactly or how to fix it so I went a bit deeper into the local resources tab and clicked on either client or remote under keyboard. Then I saved not realising it would make it a default. This then became a default file . The I went to write something in notepad and hey presto my keyboard had gone haywire! The caps button doesnt work properly, I can not type an M(it becomes a 0) It sems to have shifted into caps mode but only on certain letters. That said if I dont hold down the caps lock the letters are coming up as numerals and other things....anything but the right letter. I nave clicked on every key on my keyboard and cant find M at all. This issue has affected about 12-15 of my keys on the keyboard. I really am confused. Any help would be much appreciated. I cant see how just deleteing the file would change anything because that file is just there to be called upon if you want it....the default seems to have been set. I have tried resetting my keyboard to UK options etc but dont understand the toggle key and serial key issues.
Please can anyone help?
Thanks
Bridiebee

Yep, sounds like the numlock is turned on for the laptop. Here is an expert from a post on a different site:

"Laptops implement numlock as an overlay to the normal keys. Shift num key on laptop will give you the normal keys back, not the cursor stuff, which is off to the site. (http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/06/226045.aspx#226080)

There is nothing like the joy of aterminal-services login from a laptop that sets the numlock option, you sit there hitting your password "say mmmm4" and being rejected, because you are really entering "0004" but cannot see it because you are getting * chars up instead. Really tsclient on laptops should ignore numlock settings for the local keyboard (but not external ones, sigh)"

You need to find the option for the laptop to turn the numlock option on and off.

Michael J

Ah! Thanks a lot I will look into how to disable it or turn it off....will let you know if all goes well. Again many thanks
Bridiebee

By the way that should have read "This is an exerpt from a post on a different site:" Not "expert"

I don't have any knowledge of that person's ability - but it did seem to mimick you problem.

Michael J

Ok well! Thanks to you it is now sorted. All I had to do was click on shift -numlck/scrlck and hey prest ...problem solved.
Again many thanks
Bridiebee