Alt Gr special characters on german keyboard work only sometimes

[Harold L Hunt II]

Holger,

We have also had reports that one of the XP PowerToys messes up the 
AltGr key handling.  Uninstalling this PowerToy fixes the problem.  Have 
you got any of the PowerToys installed?

Harold

Holger Böhnke wrote:

> Hi Alexander
> 
> 
>>This seem to be the problem. We had some reports that alt-gr does not
>>work properly on (some) WinXP machines. Do you have WinXP?
> 
> 
> Yes, XP Prof., no Service Pack
> 
> c:\>ver
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> 
> 
>>There must be a subtile difference. Maybe with the timestamp of the
>>message. Or the "Control down" and "alt down" messages come in
>>reversed order. I don't have WinXP and can't test this.
> 
> 
> I attached the logfile of spy++
> 
> I pushed:
> altgr (holding down) - 3x backsl - release altgr : out \\\
> altgr (holding down) - 3x backsl - release altgr : out \\\
> altgr (holding down) - 3x backsl - release altgr : out <nothing>
> 
> bye
> 
> Holger