The individual keys of the keyboard I' m presently using regularly get stuck, causing various faults in typing, in deleting and so on.

As 'azerty' keyboards are not standard or regular item in Australia, could you tell me which company could supply me with a new azerty keyboard. Thanks

Raymond Ongenaert, Patterson Lakes, VIC

If I'm not wrong, all you'll have to do is plug in a keyboard that is similar to yours and change over those few keycaps that are different. That is, the structure of the keyboard is the same between QWERTY and AZERTY -- the difference is a few keys and the way the operating system interprets the keypresses. Just makes sure that the keys fit. (Will someone please correct me if I'm wrong - preferably in English, not French).

Have you tied cleaning the keyboard? Lever off all the keycaps, turn it upside down, tap (whack?) the whole assembly on the desk until no more food, pets and small children fall out, then turn it over and give everything a good vacuum. Some people have been known to give the assembly a spray with a silicone lubricant before replacing the keycaps, just to make sure the mechanisms don't stick.

For readers who don't know what an AZERTY keyboard is, it's simply a standard keyboard for French speaking PC users.


Paul Zucker