A keyboard is the most essential component of a computer. It helps the computer to understand our language and is one of the biggest advances after the first typewriter in 1868.
Therefore, it becomes very important that you know how to use your keyboard to its full potential and how you can reset your keyboard whenever you face any problem.
Before we start learning how we can reset our keyboards, let’s briefly learn about the most common types of keyboards used by people around the world.
- Multimedia Keyboard – This is the keyboard that has all the keys needed for multimedia. It has all the media buttons i.e. pause, play, volume up, volume down and other buttons.
- Virtual Keyboard: The explanation is in the name itself, a keyboard that is on smartphones, that we can upload and download at any time.
- Magic Keyboard: These keyboards are battery operated and are produced exclusively by APPLE.
- QWERTY keyboard: The most used by all of us. QUERTY’s name comes from the way the keys are arranged on the keyboard for our convenience.
- Mechanical Keyboard – These keyboards have the most interesting and fun keys to work on. All the keys below this keyboard are spring-loaded underneath and feel easy to use.
Not just these, but there are several other keyboards, some even designed especially for specific 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 right now
Whether they are wireless or wired keyboards, both are machines, and while we use them, their problems arise.
Reason 1: One of the keys does not work. Many users find that their ‘p’ key doesn’t work while the rest of them do. This is a software issue and could be resolved by resetting the keyboard.
Reason 2: Sometimes wireless keyboards act stubbornly refusing to connect with the computer. Resetting can fix this problem.
Reason 3 – Backlit keyboards forego their lighting, making it very difficult for us to use the light feature. A reset of this keyboard can bring back the light.
How to perform the keyboard test
To find out the real problem with your keyboard, you can perform a keyboard test using online keyboard test tools.
- Visit keyboardtester.io and launch the tester.
- Here, press all the keys one by one and check whether they work or not.
If the keys are faulty and have some problems, then the keyboard tester will not show the keys that were pressed 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 your keyboard hardware or software according to the problem you are facing.
This is how you can hard reset your wireless and wired keyboard:
hard reset
wired keyboard
Step 1 – For wiring, unplug 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 a light flashes on the keyboard, it means that your keyboard has been reset.
Wireless keyboard (Bluetooth keyboard)
Step 1: Turn off your 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 a light flashes, has been reset.
If this doesn’t work for you, make sure to update or reinstall the keyboard drivers on your windows.
soft reset
There are two ways you can reset your keyboard. One method is to remove the Bluetooth devices keyboard stick from your PC 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 Managers’.
Step 2 – Navigate to find ‘Keyboard’ and select it.
Step 3: Under ‘Keyboard’, you will see the name of the keyboard you want to reset. Click it.
Step 4: Once selected, at the top you will see a red cross; select it
Step 5: Next, select the keyboard name once, and this time install or update it.
Step 6: Your PC will check for updates and install them once again. This should make your problem go away.
mac keyboard
Step 1: Go to ‘System Preferences.
Step 2 Select ‘Keyboard’ from the menu.
Step 3: Then at the bottom right select ‘Modifier Keys’.
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 we’re setting the keyboard to the default.
Step 7: Next, go to ‘Accessibility’ from System Preferences. Click on Keyboard and uncheck 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 mentioned above should help you resolve any of the issues you are facing with your keyboard, be it wired, wireless, Windows or Mac.
Hopefully this article has been of help and information to you in any way possible.
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