Windows 10: crazy ceyboard and excel bug

A few weeks ago, I installed the Microsoft Teams app from an Internet link from Infobip as an Infobip algorithmic challenge event. It's possible that I picked up a virus from that link - I saved the installation files in a download file. After that, my keyboard went crazy. When I move up, down, left, right it leaves behind traces of numbers 8, 2, 4, 6 retrospectively. Using the Shift key to highlight multiple selections is not possible, and after using the Shift + up, right, left, or left arrow key, the selected selection is locked and frozen. After that, it is not enough to just turn off excel and turn it on again, but it is necessary to turn off the computer and turn it on again. Now I see that my excel formulas with brackets are wrong. After I discovered the problems I tried to solve the issue with optional installations from the update: intel system and lenovo system. My system is a Lenovo E570, and I use genuine WINDOSE and genuine Office. I use Microsoft Office 2007 Student.

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Excel bug with mouse cursor

Recently my colleague noticed problem while working in Excel:

• when she is trying to select more cells it doesn't do it, it selects only one and drags it around
  
• when she tries to click on cell to select it it appears as she double clicked it
  
• when she wants to close document she can't, nothing happens (she can't close it on x or on File/Close, or right click on toolbar icon)
  

We have tried to change mouse but it's the same. And it happens only in Excel.

Any suggestion?

 

Export All Administrative Events to Excel

To analyze events, from the Windows Event Viewer, there is a simple way to export all Administrative Events to Excel, with PowerShell.

Exporting all Administrative Events to Excel is a simple two Step process, as described here:

Step 1 - Create the Administrative Events View .xml file

1. Open Eventviewer (%windir%\system32\eventvwr.msc)
2. Navigate to: Event Viewer (Local) > Custom Views > Administrative Events
3. In the “Actions” pane select “Filter Current Custom View”.
4. Select the the XML tab.
5. Press Ctrl+A to select all the XML code of the Custom View.
6. Open a notepad, paste the selected code and save the file to your Desktop as AdmEvtView.xml

Step 2 - Create the csv file with the events

1. Download the ExportEvtCSV.zip file, which contains the script ExportEvtCSV.ps1 and unzip it, on your Desktop.
   It's not a fancy script, just basic PowerShell commands to create a csv file on the Desktop.
2. In Windows Search, type “ISE” (without the quotes) to open “Windows PowerShell ISE” and Run as administrator
   
3. To allow running the script, change the ExecutionPolicy, for this session. To do that, in the Console pane type:
   Code:
4. In the Windows PowerShell ISE, open and run the script: ExportEvtCSV.ps1
   The script will create a csv file with a name YYYYMMDD.HHMM.csv on the Desktop
5. When done, open the newly created .csv file, format the columns as needed and optionally save it as .xlsx, if you wish.

That’s it! You now have all the Administrative Events in Excel for filtering and further analysis.

Now to the more technical hard stuff... *Confused

There is a reason for running the script from within PowerShell ISE!

It would be great if everything was also working perfectly, when running the script from an elevated PowerShell too.

We can run it from an elevated PowerShell, which means that you just follow the Step 1, as above but for the Step 2 instead of the ISE you run the script from an elevated PowerShell.

The problem is that it will work only for anybody who has en-US format for the dates. Everyone else, who has another format (i.e. en-GB, fr-FR, el-GR etc.), the dates are not translated properly by Excel (although the script uses the –UseCulture switch) and remain as text in the en-US format.

I'm not sure if this a bug of the "export-csv" cmdlet, but although it runs the way it supposed to from within the ISE, from PowerShell there is a problem with the dates format.
As I haven’t found a way to overcome this obstacle, any suggestion from the PowerShell gurus of the forum (like my good friend Shawn @Brink, for instance), is welcome.

 

CSV files used to open in Excel....not now!

Hi, you say Excel is installed. Does it run normally?

You can't find Excel in (an unspecified) list of applications. I don't know which list that is for sure.

For example, in the list related to:
- rt click a file. Open With
- this list:



- this list:




- some other list...

If Excel does not appear in the above, I suggest you repair your office installation.

Maybe the above gives you some ideas. Otherwise please post a screenshot of where you think you should see it but don't. Thanks.