

With these troubleshooting tips you should be able to unlock your keyboard most of the time. Windows will automatically install the default keyboard driver. If you’ve chosen the “ Uninstall device” option, restart your PC. Right-click on your computer’s keyboard and select either Update driver or Uninstall device. Open Device Manager and expand the Keyboards category. To get your keyboard back to work, you may need to reinstall or update the keyboard driver. The keyboard may become locked due to a faulty or outdated driver. Step 3: Reinstall or Update Keyboard Driver

Otherwise, it should be a software issue and you can fix it with the steps below. If the issue still exists, it is possible that your keyboard is physically damaged. For external USB / PS2 keyboard, you can connect it to a different computer.


Keyboard is locked and you can’t type anything? If you’ve locked the keyboard unintentionally and couldn’t recall how you did it, just follow this troubleshooting tutorial and you should be able to unlock the keyboard on your Windows 10 / 8 / 7 computer.īefore getting started, you have to find if certain keys or the entire keyboard has broken physically.
