Windows 10: Extra character now inserted after KB500802

After the upgrade KB500802 every time I enter data into a field, an excel cell or a browser search a "-" gets inserted as the first character. It's driving me nuts - any ideas?

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Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard inserting extra characters

Hi,

Thank you for replying with the status of this issue.

I would like to have some more understanding to the issue so that we can diagnose and work on the issue faster. Kindly provide me the following information:

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  Does the issue occur with all the characters or particular key?
  
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  Did you make any changes to the computer prior to the issue occur?
  
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  Who is the manufacturer of the computer?
  

Let’s try updating the driver for the mouse and keyboard and verify the results. Follow the steps:

a) Press Windows and X key together and select
Device Manager.

b) Locate the Key board device icon. Right click on the driver icon.

c) Select Update driver software.

c) Select "browse my computer for a driver software".

d) Select “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”.

e) Select the driver option according your device model and installed.

f) If this does not work, follow the steps from ‘a’ to ‘c’ and select “Search automatically for the updated driver”.

g) Choose the same steps to update the driver for keyboard as well.

If the issue still exists, try contacting the Microsoft Hardware support as detailed in the following link.

Microsoft Hardware: Contact Us

Let us know if you need further assistance and we’ll be more than happy to help you.

Have a great day.

 

How do I use or find Help for using Character Map?

My question on Character Map has not been answered. I have followed every suggestion and I still cannot get the character to insert into the word. I click Select and Copy; I put the curser into the word, but the character will not insert. There must be
a step between Copy and to insert that is missing for me.

Jean

 

Extra characters in dictionary app

I have a program I've been using a long time, through various versions of Windows (but not Windows 8, which I never used). It's Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (much faster and more easily searchable or browsable than online dictionaries).

In installing it on my new computer, with Windows 10, the menu bar looks fine, my word entry in the top search bar looks fine, and the word list in response in a left-hand column looks fine. However, in the main screen, with dictionary entries and definitions,
many such show extra characters. It's always the same extra characters: a ligature of a capital A and E. If I'm not mistaken, it also shows only when an entry is two words (such as "Ferris wheel"). The extra characters then appear twice, although, oddly enough,
not in a consistent position such as surrounding the word space or at the end of words.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, after living with it for a couple of weeks. No use. Any ideas? It can't depend on a truly bizarre font, I imagine, as it's an old and thus not so sophisticated program and always used to work.