How to fix the error of not typing in the number on the laptop keyboard

Laptops that do not have a full-size keyboard (with a numpad area on one side), will often encounter errors when typing, typing in numeric keys, or displaying strange characters, not numbers as we type. This causes a lot of controversy for us to be unable to continue to work or do our work.

This error is quite easy to recognize when you type the sequence '123456', the character 'mjkluio' will appear, even if you delete it and do it again, this error keeps repeating. This is annoying a lot for your work. Many users have spent time bringing their computers out of stock to fix this problem. However, this is not a serious error, you can completely fix it yourself in order not to waste time and effort bringing out.

Typing error shows strange characters

The reason is that users let the system keyboard language be Vietnamese. Normally Windows has integrated Vietnamese language keyboard, but it is not suitable to use, it is recommended that you leave the keyboard in English by default. To type Vietnamese you should use popular softwares such as: Unikey, Vietkey.

To switch back to the English language keyboard, you can do: Control Panel > Region Language > Advance Keyboard Setting . Then we adjust to choose Keyboard Eng or UK .

Error typing the number again

This error often occurs with laptops that do not match the numpad key sequence. The error of this problem comes from the conversion, enabling the numeric keystroke function on the laptop keyboard. When you open Numlock, it will activate numeric keystroke mode on the letter key. When you turn off Numlock, it will not activate the numeric keystroke function in Win.

You can turn Numlock on and off with the key combination Fn + F11 (for Dell models), for other models, note the Numlock on the F series from 1-12.

Error due to mouse keys enabled

In case the numeric keypad may fail because the mouse keys are turned on, making it impossible for the user to access the numeric keys. So the user can turn off the mouse keys by following these steps:

Step 1: Press the Win + R key combination, press Enter to open the Control Panel

Step 2: Select Ease of Access Center and select Change how your keyboard works

Step 3: At this point in Control the mouse with the keyboard you will see the 'Turn ON Mouse Keys' mode appear . Uncheck this item to disable active mouse keys.

Keyboard driver error

In case the driver is too old or error you should delete and reinstall to a newer version by:

Step 1: Press the Win + R key combination and enter the command line 'devmgmt.msc' and press Enter .

Step 2: After the Device Manager window opens, click the Keyboard option , then right-click on the problematic keyboard and select Update driver to update the keyboard driver again.

Step 3: Reboot the device and check the keyboard again

Fix keyboard problems with the Keyboard troubleshoote tool on Win10

On Windows 10 version built-in hunting tool to identify and fix hardware related problems that is the Keyboard troubleshooter. How to activate this mode is extremely simple:

Step 1: Open Start > Settings > Updates and Security > Troubleshoot

Step 2: At the right pane of Troubleshoot > Keyboard to automatically fix keyboard related problems. Then restart your computer and check the keyboard again.

Through our sharing, hopefully help you to fix the error of not typing on the laptop keyboard quickly.

Good luck!

Marvin Fry

Update 20 August 2020