![]() The Metro interface central to Windows 8 is regularly criticised rather than lauded, even though a recognisable Windows 7 desktop is a button press away and touchscreen introduces an additional, useful interface that will drive the price of touchscreen monitors to reasonable levels. Microsoft detractors will always find reason to belittle pretty much everything released from Redmond and, constantly, are given plenty of ammunition. With Windows 8 across multiple devices, Microsoft has the opportunity to reaffirm its position as the natural business solution, much as RIM enjoyed for the relatively short period when the BlackBerry was the only option for secure corporate e-mail on a handheld device. The influx of Apple and to a lesser degree Android tablets and smartphones to the workplace has led businesses to at least consider the benefits of running iOS and even Chrome workstations, demonstrating how little passion exists for the provider of the server and workstation software of choice for almost twenty years. ![]() While the majority of businesses continue to run Microsoft server products and Windows 7 and XP dominate on workstations, the use of Microsoft software is almost begrudging with little loyalty and even less excitement about existing products. If not, post a comment here and we’ll try to help.Microsoft has a fantastic opportunity to enhance its place as the business software and hardware (tablets and loosely smartphones) provider of choice for the next few years with Windows 8, if it can avoid snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Hopefully one of the above methods fixed your problem. Immediately restart your computer and let Windows reinstall the keyboard. You can do this by going to Device Manager and then expand Keyboards and right-click to uninstall it. The other thing you can try if nothing above is working is to uninstall the keyboard driver and then reinstall it. If you have some Xerox printer drivers, but don’t use those printers anymore, make sure to uninstall the printer completely and any associated printer software. Go ahead and kill that process or permanently disable it using MSCONFIG. Specifically, the Xerox Job Tracker process is known to cause issues with the tab key. Quite a few people who have had this problem also have Xerox print drivers installed on their machines. – Press the CTRL key twice Xerox Printer Drivers – Press the Windows Key twice (turns off StickKeys) Try each of these below and check to see if tab is working after each: Keyboard Combinationsĭepending on your system, you may have pressed some key combination that enabled or disabled something in Windows that causes the tab key to no longer function properly. I uninstalled it and everything was working fine again. On top of that, you can share it between a Windows, Mac and Linux machine because they have software for all three operating systems.Īnyway, for whatever reason, Synergy was causing my tab key to no longer work properly in Windows 7. It’s pretty neat because it’s free and you don’t need any hardware to share the keyboard and mouse. ![]() It’s a small app that lets you share your mouse and keyboard with multiple computers via a network connection. My problem was not a hardware switch, but a program called Synergy. Disconnect it from there and reconnect directly to the computer. If you have a setup like this, it could be the switch device that is causing the problems with the tab key. Just to rule out hardware, make sure your keyboard is connected directly to the computer and not to some sort of switch or middle device that lets you control multiple computers from one keyboard. This issue is normally a software issue and it’s caused by other programs interfering with the keyboard input or with other programs. I quickly managed to rule out hardware issues like the keyboard because I switched the keyboard and still had the same problem.
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