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Off topic, I know, but I hate slogging through the whole internet to try to find something some of you might already know. Thanks in advance.I am using a computer (that is not mine). It is a hp Pavilion TouchSmart 15 Notebook. It has been doing some strange and unwelcome things.When I type a capital 'H,' I get a 'paste' keyboard shortcut. Bizarre. When I hit 'shift + quotation mark,' I get a 'paste' keyboard shortcut.Any ideas on what's wrong? I must have hit a key sequence that triggered this.

Thanks, Ole Timer, for the response. I think this here machine updates automatically, but I will ask my son (whose machine it is) to help me look into that.I'm thinking there must be some settings that I accidentally toggled on in an effort to get the keyboard to work. I think I hit ever blessed key on the keyboard!

I think that may have been the computer I had in Hawaii. Just a warning. Don't drop that thing. My 4-year-old somehow got tangled up in the cable and knocked it over and shattered the screen. Also, the hard drive is hard to get out of that thing. At 1 AM, the night before my flight, I'd finally gotten a hold of a decent microscrewdriver to get the drive out. I had to take the whole bottom off and realized I'd have had to take the keyboard somehow to get to the drive, so I just pride the thing apart with a screwdriver and left that laptop along with another HP in the trashcan.Lower end HPs aren't that strong if you drop them. They are nothing like an IPad in that regard. I just bought one yesterday, though, but got the $69 Geek squad insurance against dropping it. They are usually fast enough for what I want to do, so they are okay. I never had that problem with the H keys. That's really weird. I did have the problem with that last HP that if I put it to sleep by pushing the power button or closing it, whatever the method was that worked, that it wouldn't respond to left click or keyboard to type in the password to get back into windows. I'd have to reboot. That was really annoying

All of my PC's are Dell and I aint never had a minutes trouble out of em. Ma last three laptops has been HP, anb I aint never had no real trouble out of em. I've had my current one about 1 1/2 years, its a HP Envy TouchSmart (touchscreen) 17. Its got a i7 processor, 8 Gig a RAM, an I aint never had a minutes trouble out of it. All three a ma HP laptops have been a little higher end (by that I mean not the cheapest they had). The retail price when I bought the one I got now was $1300, but I got it on sale at Best Buy for $950. About 9 months or so ago I bought a Solid State Drive (cost of unit an installation at local computer shop was $300) and changed the Hard Drive to a SSD, which reboots in a fraction a the time the hard drive did. I do remember the technician tellin me when I had the SSD installed that my unit was not the typical lower end unit, he even said he didn't like to work on a lot of the HP units. I guess the higher end ones are made a little more sturdy or heavy duty, I don't know, but I've never had a minutes problem with mine. Here she is:

That's a nice looking laptop, Ole Timer. (And I've really gotten quite fond of the touch screen.)No, this computer is not new. If I had to use it for something serious like school or work, I would probably have to be a little more diligent about getting it fixed.

Yeah, I have a sneaking suspicion that someone might have been me somehow inadvertently doing that. Hopefully, I'll figure out how to restore the defaults.

This is not that kind of issue. In my searching on the internet, I did come across mentions of that problem, but that is not what is happening in my case. My primary language is still US English (except when I converse with Ole Timer, lol).Thanks for brainstorming with me, though.

I'm certain no one has intentionally changed key assignments (unless we're talking about hackers). My adult son and I are the only ones who use the computer. My son rarely uses the computer and would not have changed the settings, and even if he had, he would certainly have mentioned it to me when I told him about the problems I was having.It all started one day (or perhaps a dark and stormy night) when I noticed that the key on the top row of the computer which brightens the screen did not respond. Hmm. A few days later the computer accepted no input whatsoever from the physical keyboard, though I could use the Touch Keyboard. My first response was to reboot. I think that did work on at least a couple of occasions, but once when it did not, I asked my son for assistance. He suggested removing the battery and reinserting it. That did work. I noticed it would sometimes happen after the computer updated itself. I began searching online for some answers and came across an hp forum where other users were experiencing the same problem. One solution involved a complex sequence of turning on, removing the battery, unplugging, replacing battery, plugging in, holding down the start button for 30 secs. (and I assume doing the hokey pokey). But, I did take away from that that I could remove the battery sometimes to solve the problem of not being able to input from the physical keyboard. One user said he noticed that he often encountered the problem immediately after using the keys on the top row of his keyboard. (So I tried to use the mouse and icons in the task bar to change the brightness or volume rather than the top row of keys.) Also one of the users was lamenting that overwrite was the default rather than insert and that you must press the insert key EVERY time you want to use it rather than just setting it to one way. This is a recent change on this computer as well. (And perhaps that happened with an update.) Anyway, I realized I would have to press the function + 'ins' key, which is a key on the top row, but it still doesn't work the way I expect it to, and any revision is annoying. I make lots of revisions.After those issues began happening is when I noticed the weird pasting action happening with a capital 'h' or with 'shift + quote marks.'The thing for me is that I use the computer for an escape. Diagnosing problems with the computer is not the escape I'm looking for.

I am not sure this would prove anything for sure but if you have a desktop computer handy try plugging the keyboard from it into the USB port on the laptop. Then see if that keyboard acts the same way. It could be a failure of the keyboard in the laptop. As a stuck FN key or such. Seems to me it could even be a loose contact in the connector that joins the keyboard to the motherboard. Just probing. I have one (also an HP) that I was running Linux on and it will not stay on more than a few minutes before the whole thing freezes. I think I am going to try a bios update to see if that fixes it. I got it free. The John Deere dealer where my son-in-law works was going to throw it out since it had been rolled over by a tractor in a plowed field. It was a bit warped but I replaced the broken LCD screen and it worked fine for a couple of years.I mention this because I believe basic keyboard operation is a bios function and might take a bios update to fix. But some functions also seem to be keyed to the OS like the Windows key. A bios update can be tedious and dangerous to the life of the computer if done wrong.