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SPACEBAR STILL BROKEN THOUGH D:<. thank u perfect and simple i thought id have to send the hole thing back. thanks soooooooo much you saved my life Thanks man a lot, I was thinking about such a way of repairing but was afraid that I can broke something. Maybe I’ll have to find the solution by myself. But to keep them from wearing off again you should treat the keys with a spray on clear coat. I had the exact same problem. Just take another one off, and see how you need to put it together ty very much. Well, it is a very good tutorial, but my z key is snapped off and i cant seem to get it back on. hey, thank you very much! (It was the Pg Dn key so it was very easy to fix), Thank you so very much. The lettering on the keys is now just a big - 6505717 ... Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) I have an earlier Spectre that does not have a backlit keyboard. I get the reattached and they sit crooked or “sprung” on one side. Installing the key cap is much easier. Use a knife and put lots of pressure right on the top two points to get the prongs to sit in tightly. I tested the keyboard on another computer and it is ok. tanks. Thank you so much for your website. Puh-lease. Good and nice guide. My L click has broken (one side won’t click)…any ideas? I would really appreciate it if you could help me with this. Do i have to buy a new key? I broke the latch and i have a completely different laptop! I have never observed any other keyboard with labels that wear off. My up button has this problem and fell off. symptoms of this are: one side of the key going up when the other side is pushed down, although the key is not dislodged. Out whipped his long Greyhound leg and off came the 1! your tutorial helped me a lot I now have an “I” key instead of a |\ key, which I think I’ve never used. thank you so much. i did everything it told me but my button wont stay in ? Geeze man, i just broke off my c and god knows i need that, haha. Um, yeah. I’m missing 7 keys for a panasonic CF-29 Toughbook, and I have 0.00 money.. Hi, I went through the entire tutorial and a ton of the questions but I didn’t see a solution to my problem. I now need to remember not to pull the keys, or i’m going to have to come up with some money. In this case two parts of the retainer will not stay connected to each other. um my keyboard isn’t working good some keys don’t respond how can i fix it? Found inside – Page 7... to the three-finger salute so often that the print is wearing off of these three keys on our jacks on the front of the PC instead of only keyboard. I need to clean it out and I found this page by Googling. I appreciate your effort of taking closer pictures. this website’s a lifesaver. I cannot explain how much force you have to use because you have to feel it. The repair shop insisted I got a new keyboard but I saw this site first and insisted it wasn’t necessary…saved me some moola. OMG I fixed the key on my lap top. when i put it back on, it it crooked. Please help. Hi ok, but what if the key cap assembly KEEPS falling off? My problem is not with any of my new laptop keyboard keys, but with the mouse left key. OMG!Thank you so much! Relocatable & let users define their functions~ Then *net_surf_new_tab or #copy/paste surely very very easy!:). var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); Has to be said keys very high quality, still work great to this day and is 5+ years old. One must find out which side is the correct “up” side for each retainer part (I found one side is flatter than the other in each case). left shift wouldn’t go down, when pressed. on 4/11/10, i was being acting foolish, and i threw a notebook, and it had landed on my laptop. Oh my gosshhh!!! Exactly what I was looking for. Hi. This is clearly a mechanical problem. thank you sooooo much. i took my keys off to clean underthem assome were sticking i replaced the space bar as u have said but asu canseeits quite stiff anddoesnt work very well unless ibangit hard in the centre… any ideas? Probably you can find a new replacement keyboard on eBay for about $20-30. your article helped me find out the solution…. FYI, the “useless” key is not “useless” at all. It worked so well! © I have looked at your instructions, and although very clear, I am having a major problem. Thank you so much! I’m looking for a replacement keypad button, Specifically the “Enter” button (gray plastic cover that goes on top of the button). My microsoft keyboards, my gaming keyboards and other un-named ones are parked up and gatherring dust in a cupboard. Thanks, your tutorial helped me fix my keyboard problem, you rock!!! rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and i read this and did what u said and it snapped right back on. Sigh. Great site keep it up! THANKS ALOT YOU REALLY SAVE MY BUTT ON THIS ONE HAHAHA BUT THANK YOU YOU WERE VERY SPECIFIC AND ANSWERED ALL MY QUESTIONS WITHOUT ME EVEN ASKING THANKS ALOT AGAIN, i snaped of the key retainer off but i cant get it to got back in and stay please help. The spacebar on my lenovo3000 N100 failed. Thank you! This is true for: T, I, O, N, and is starting on the spacebar. Here’s the manual for Comapq Presario v4000 notebook. thanks. Thanks for this, my mom wiped my keyboard with a cloth and F6 and F7 fell off this really worked cant thank you enough. Sweet! Thanx again……. Thanks a lot for your step by step detailed instructions to repiar and reinstalling the key for Laptop. Thanks so much for the info. Found inside – Page 232truly on its way south for retirement as a reef off Florida . ... Keeping the old , worn - out hard drive around is a bad idea as well . Thank you soooo much! This sooooooo helped! The suggestion worked perfectly for me. If they are damaged you’ll have to buy a new key cap or retainer. David, UK. will tell everyone where to come when there key come off. If you cannot find the correct key, maybe it makes sense to replace the entire keyboard. great help. Are you talking about left click on the touch pad? It worked great. any ideas?… because geek squad want to charge me a whopping $35 to send it back to HP to get a new keyboard!!! Many thanks! I still was not able to fix my keybroad. Does that mean i can’t do anything about it? i just broke the *o* key on the keyboard to the laptop. I will not have it replaced a third time and will work with them on what to do. Thank you so much! Just GENTLY remove and try again until it snaps fully into place and it will look, feel and function like it never came off in the first place. You rock! There many sites selling single keyboard keys. But all is good again. The natural ergonomic keyboard Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Within a few minutes of reading this my spacebar was working again! I am having trouble snapping the keys back onto my laptops keyboard. It has solvd all my problms with my kyboard! I could fixed my space bar! Thank you so much for the help. My Q key felt today from Toshiba keyboard laptop just like the 2nd keyboard here but i am not able to fix it !!!! i still have it but cant seem to get it back on. that saved me $25 per key.. If I had found your site then I could have saved a whole lot of time (and expense to IBM , thank you so much! Im hearing the snap when i put the key on but it keeps on falling out anyway. Thx. This saved me a repair bill. any idea the price too change out the keyboard plus the part? OMG this isnt working! Not, bad I kind of new how it was i found for my keyboard, you needed to use pliers to hold the middle one in place while you snaped the outer one in place (my keyboad was a bit different, but your images helped out a great deal. woops i boke the key …. I did something that I shouldn’t have (ate near my laptop), and spilled syrup under the space key. Thanks very much! thanks, my nephew took 4 of my keys out and i fixed it thanks to ur website but for one the little gummie thing came off how do i put it back? The last time my wife managed to put it back – took her 30 mins. I have been missing my “p” key for a couple of weeks. One of the retainers is broken and the key will not stay connected to it. Much appreciated. You have to engage the retainer with the small hooks on the keyboard. I have worn through the shiny covering and am down working on wearing off the letters at this point. i still can’t fix it i have a compaq laptop and a num key fell off. When the key I ordered arrived I was at a total loss… thank you so much for this incredibly helpful page! You rule! You get used to it. I got my down arrow to go back on to my Compaq but now it wobbles really bad and wont stay straight it falls to the sides but its still attached. I was able to kind of get one half of it to stick, but its only part on and wabbly?! Do you know of alternative keystrokes that might mimic the key I need to press? I finally got my N key back on correctly thanks to this guide. thank you thank you thank you—i was panic stricken i would never use my “r” key again LOL —your instructions made the fix so simple THANKS again. I can’t copy/paste forever.This is a Gateway laptop. Does anyone know how it works exactly or know how to get it working again? That I had to put the parts in place then snap the key onto the parts. I can’t see any broken tips or anything when I gently ease it up to look. the internet, intelligent people and competence :/ HELP ME:(. Or is superglue just fine to use if done sparingly? This is how i solved the problem without buying a new keyboard. Hey thanks man.. Pl tell me how I can repair it. HELP.. If the touchpad button is broken, the entire top cover assembly has to be replaced. I need help to fix this so it would be very nice if you could help me. Now I can enjoy typing, knowing which key is b and which is n. Yippee! Thanks for the tip, this was awesome! I wanted to know, if superglue is dangerous for keybord, what should we use instead? thanks again , OMG! omg!! Took my spacebar key off to clean under it then realised I couldn’t get it back on *embarrassed*. Found inside – Page 94ELL - WORS My keyboard doesn't have F11 and F12 keys , and Microsoft Word for Windows ... If your rapidly moving fingers wear the letters off , you probably ... mate! Finally thanks to your site it seems so simple….. then I found this website.Thanks alot. On the 9.7 keyboard after just over a year of use there were many key labels that had worn off. I had spilled eggnog on my Inspiron 6000 laptop, and after cleaning everything off carefully, I noted that some keys were loose. Wow it worked. If this fails anywhere else where they might fix it for cheaper? Thank you. The I key came off, (this was a year or so ago), and I’ve been trying to put it back, it was half on, and driving me nuts. Thank you so much <33, Thanks, where looking for the name of Key Retainer, was very useful My “R” key had fallen off and your article helped me fix it in less than 2 minutes . If you could help I would be very grateful! thanks again !! That’s just you? I’m missing 7 keys for a panasonic CF-29 Toughbook, and I have 0.00 money. I think I could get it all to snap back, if that small black plastic piece was in place like the one on the other side. thanks so much, now my space bar buttom works perfectly again . You saved my day, my FULL-STOP! I was freakin’ out because my 1 year old got a hold of my laptop and removed a key. (Search examples: “Dell keyboard key”, “Toshiba keyboard key”, “HP keyboard key”, etc… ) After you found a new key, put it back in place the same way as I described in the situation 1. It’s fixed now and I have pillows between the dog and my laptop now. My backspace key came off on my laptop, and I could not figure out how to put it back on. i can click it back on but after a few times of pressing it, it comes right back off. i cant get the retainer out to put them back together, , the retainer wont stay together but it still has the two tips. Please help me!!!!! You are a lifesaver, I’ll be more careful when I clean the keyboard in future. any way to fix it? Using that replacement method, I managed to get my ‘N’ key to work and stay still! Then I have placed the Keyboard in a WARM basket with water and a tiny quantity of soap. My cat was trying to crawl into my lap and stepped on the right arrow key of my laptop, his nail went under it and when he stepped off it popped off! Keyboard Letters Wearing Off - posted in External Hardware: I have a white keyboard and a few letters are beginning to fade with wear. THX !! Next, I attached the rectangular piece. thanks alot!! Attached a shot of one of my keyboards. Besides, the ability to deactivate the Windows key can come in handy. i used your technique and fixed my space bar key of my old laptop of compaq brand. I can see where the bottom retainer goes, because there are two hooks it has to slide in to. (It is used for shieldering purpose). did i break something? Thanks very much guys. I have been trying to get that thing on for 2 months now. My toddler thought it was a blast to pick the keys off. , my j key loves you now. seriously, thanks. The key that fell off of my board is the enter key (dell laptop) and the metal bar thing is shaped a bit differently from the spacebar. Situation 2. Separate the retainer from the space bar key with a flat head screwdriver. Thanks heaps. Awesome! Sophia, Thank you. Thank you for your helpful information, I was able to fix my keyboard quickly and am grateful! Hey, that is a very nice tutorial. Somehow popped one of the retainers off my spacebar and couldnt figure out how to get it back on my HP Pavillion dv2000 keyboard. This works in most cases, where the issue is originated due to a system corruption. (I’ve only had the laptop for one month). Not easy doing the search, either, with missing keys! _ _ I tried taking off the 0 key next to it to see if I could figure it out, but was completely stumped. Thanks for putting this info. hi, i have problem with my loptop keyboard,,some of my keyboard keys like when,im presing shift+2 it becomes double quotes instead of ‘AT’,,how can i fix this.. i think it may become shuffle key.,pleaas help me,, thanks,,. THANKS A BUNCH! Thank you so much. hey thanks for the info. any suggestion please. I started freaking but read this guide helped and got my backspace back in. THANKS!!!!!! tks. and my parents are going to kill me!I need help fast ! General cleaning recommendations. anyone? . even misalligned my ‘y’ key.. Thanks !! Seems so simple now, after reading your suggestion to swap out the caps like that, but I was completely at my wit’s end and not thinking properly. Thanks again. Any advice? Wow, wonderful tutorial here. The tiny gaps between keys collect dust particles and build-up. Incidentally, my “N” key was the problem on an HP Pavilion laptop and I couldn’t type without the repair. thank you so very much for your excellent guide, you have saved me a fortune, keep up the fantastic work and well done. the “@” key . Second, position the key cap correctly. thanks for telling me to take another key off now i cant get two keys back on , Hi. 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; Enter Key is back on . Thanks sooo much for your web site!! my clip is a elongaded u shap much like what is pictured. How about when the 2 white small things don’t exist ? I pulled off my C key because I thought something was stuck underneath it, but when I tried to put it back in my key would only snap back halfway in place. now they’re working just fine! Any way to fix this? Great site. It was a headahce just to remember where they went, lol. Something must be broken. If you give the the laptop model number, there is chance I can point you to the keyboard replacement instructions or service manual. The bottom of the retainer goes on but just not the top and i don’t know why. How to remove a key. Well, this looks very helpful, but my key has not fully come off. Thanks again! this helped sooo much. your site is very helpful!!! To disable or turn off desired key, click on “ Remap a key ” button. Thank You so much….worked out easy n wonderful. i got a compaq and it nothing like thiz A key came off my laptop and won’t go back on. I don't think it has anything to do with clean or dirty hands or lotion (or being a woman)... 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