Colon and neighbouring inverted comma keys on toshiba L510 not working

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Hi,

Have you tried to open a laptop? If not, try to go to service center it might causes more damage.But if you can, use a tissue and a ligther fluid to clean the keyboard membrane. Dry it well so that it cant causes shorted.... Thank you for using fixya....please dont rate me if you are not satisfied with my suggestions.

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Search for a keyboard on eBay. Should be about $5-15. Type in "(model name) keyboard."

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Do you have an HP Accidental Damage extended warranty? If you do, you can call HP's tech support and get it fixed/replaced.

If you don't have the extra warranty, you can try to carefully pop the keyboard keys off and carefully clean underneath as the contacts below the keys are possibly stuck in the down position.

You may have to take it to a service centre and have a technician open up the laptop and see if it can be cleaned and try to "unstuck" the keyboard keys.

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Dead easy, go to the Control Panelselect region and language settings.
On opening you will get a pop up with 3 tabs

!st tab change region to UK

2nd tab click details and change all options to UK

That's it done.

Oliver Wilson

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• Posted on Apr 17, 2010

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If this problem occurred recently you might still be able to save the keyboard. However, it is a painstaking method of popping out each of the keys that are not working and cleaning them off (preferably with some contact cleaner) and making sure that there is no corrosion trying to form due to the moisture. Be careful when prying up some keys as some keyboards (especially laptop keyboards) are hard to put back if you don't have the right tools or the know how. I suggest looking up keyboard removal techniques based on the brand of your keyboard/laptop.
Good luck...