Windows 10: My Keyboard Digits Have Been Hijacked by Windows Explorer as Hotkeys

I recently had to resurrect a backup installation of Win 7 Home premium. It was/is a vanilla installation and everything pretty much works fine except for the main keyboard digits. Plain unshifted, vanilla digit keys 1,2,3,8,9,0 launch Win Explorer while digits 4,5,6,7 just result in a system beep. The rest of the keyboard keys including the numeric keypad digits and the shifted keyboard digits keys !@#$... are all OK. Multiple keyboards all exhibit the same behavior. I've looked in the registry for Win Explorer options but find nothing related.This is extremely annoying as muscle memory a

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Windows Explorer Replacement?

I don't use Internet Explorer, I meant the thing where you can look at files etc. Hotkey Windows+E. Maybe it's the wrong name in english though. *Stick Out Tongue

 

Windows 11 Hotkey - File Explorer New Menu?

lol oops - THANK YOU *Rolleyes

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Microsoft Designer Keyboard HotKeys NOT working

Hi Andrzej,

If the Hotkeys on your Microsoft Designer Keyboard don't work, it is possible that the Human Interface Device Access service on your Surface was stopped. Make sure that the service is set to automatic. To do that, follow these steps:

• Type Services in the search box. Click on Services
• In the list of services in the Details pane, double-click HID Human Interface Service, and then make sure that the Startup type is set to Automatic.
  

If the Hotkeys still won't work, try to create a new local user account and test if the "special keys" will work. If you're a Windows 10 user, refer to this link
on how to create a local user.

You may also test the keyboard with a different computer. If the keyboard does not work correctly with the other computer, this could be a possible hardware issue.

Let us know if you need further assistance.