How to Reset Keyboard in a Simple Way (Steps)

The keyboard is the most essential component of a computer. It helps computers understand our language and was one of the greatest developments since the first typewriter in 1868.

Therefore, it is very important that you know how to use your keyboard to its full potential and how you can reset your keyboard whenever you face any problems.

Before we start learning how to reset the keyboard, let’s have a quick look at the most popular keyboard types used by people around the world.

1. Multimedia keyboard: This is a keyboard that has all the keys needed for multimedia. It has all the multimedia buttons i.e. pause, play, volume up, volume down and others.
2. Virtual keyboard: The explanation lies in the name itself, a keyboard included in smartphones that we can raise and lower at any time.
3. Magic Keyboard: These keyboards are battery operated and manufactured exclusively by APPLE.
4. QWERTY Keyboard: The most commonly used keyboard by all of us. The name QUERTY comes from the arrangement of keys on the keyboard for easy manipulation.
5. Mechanical keyboards: These keyboards have the most fun and enjoyable keys to work with. All the keys under this keyboard have springs underneath and feel smooth to use.

Not only these but there are many other keyboards, some even specifically designed to target specific groups of people like gamers.

All these keyboards can mainly be grouped into wired and wireless keyboards.

Also Read: Top 5 Android Keyboard Apps

Reasons why you should reset your keyboard now

Be it wireless or wired keyboards, both are machines and while we use them, they will cause problems.

Reason 1: One of the keys is not working. A lot of users find out that their ‘p’ key doesn’t work while the rest do. This is a software issue and can be resolved by resetting the keyboard.

Reason 2: Sometimes the wireless keyboard behaves stubbornly and refuses to connect to the computer. Reset can fix this problem.

Reason 3: The backlit keyboard doesn’t glow, making it very difficult to use the light feature. Reset this keyboard can make the light back.

How to perform a keyboard test

To find the real problem with your keyboard, you can perform a keyboard test using online keyboard testing tools.

1. Go to keyboardtester.io and launch the tester.
2. Here, press all the keys one by one and check if they work or not.

If the keys are faulty and there are some problems, the keyboard checker will not show the keys that have been pressed on the screen.

In that case, you need to follow this complete keyboard troubleshooting to get it working properly.

How to reset your keyboard

You can try hardware or software reset of the keyboard depending on whatever problem you are having.

Here’s how you can hardware reset your wireless and wired keyboards:

Hard reset

Wired keyboard

Step 1: For wired, unplug the keyboard.

Step 2: Hold down the ‘ESC’ key and while you do, plug the keyboard back into your computer.

Step 3: After a few seconds, release the ‘ESC’ key; if the light is blinking on the keyboard, it means your keyboard has been reset.

Wireless Keyboard (Bluetooth Keyboard)

Step 1: Turn off your wireless keyboard.

Step 2: Press and hold the ‘ESC’ key while turning on the keyboard.

Step 3: After a few seconds, release the key, your keyboard if flashing light is reset.

If this doesn’t work for you, then make sure to update or reinstall your windows keyboard driver.

Soft reset

There are two ways you can soft reset your keyboard. One method is to remove your keyboard device from the Bluetooth device on your PC and reconnect it.

Another way is to reinstall the keyboard driver. Here, we will see how to update keyboard drivers for both Windows and Mac.

Windows Keyboard

Step 1: Click the windows icon and open ‘Device Manager’.

Step 2: Navigate to search for ‘Keyboard’ and select it.

Step 3: Under “Keyboard” you will see the name of the Keyboard that you want to reset. Click it.

Step 4: Once selected, at the top you will see a red cross; choose it.

Step 5: Next, select the Keyboard name once and this time install or update it.

Step 6: Your PC will search for updates and will install it again. This will make your problem go away.

Mac Keyboard

Step 1: Go to ‘System Preferences.

Step 2: Select ‘Keyboard’ from the menu.

Step 3: Then, at the bottom right, select ‘Modifier Key’.

Step 4: Click on ‘Restore Defaults’ and confirm with it.

Step 5: Go to the ‘Text’ tab and remove the text replacements.

Step 6: Go to the ‘Shortcuts’ tab and click ‘Restore Defaults. What we are doing here is we are setting the keyboard by default.

Step 7: Then go to ‘Accessibility’ from System Preferences. Click on Keyboard and uncheck the sticky box.

Step 8: Finally, restart your Mac.

However, if you don’t know how to connect the Magic Keyboard to your mac, then you can check out Apple’s website here.

Conclusion

The steps mentioned above will help you to solve any problem that you are having with your keyboard, whether it is a wired, wireless, Windows or Mac keyboard.

Hopefully, this article has been helpful and informative for you in any way possible.

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