Re: Is this new version designed by Satan or what?????
Reply #7 –
Hi RoZita,
I genuinely have no idea what's causing your problem, but I'm confident it isn't NWC itself.
That said, recent changes to my Win10 (64bit) system have had some transient disappointing impacts on my NWC installation.
Specifically, browser updates (I'm using Brave - Chromium based) seem to break my keyboard in NWC, then the next update fixes it again...
I suspect there is some kind of keyboard interrupt hook that traps keystrokes. NWC is not the only program affected, but it is the most affected... Or perhaps the keys hardest hit are the ones I use most often in NWC.
In particular some cursor keys and some number pad keys stop responding.
Currently I'm not having many problems in NWC, BUT the left arrow key is misbehaving in this edit window as I try to write this message. <Ctrl+Left> is even worse. It is also misbehaving in all the other software I regularly use. I expect the next Brave update will either fix it again, or maybe make it worse again. Note that if I turn off NumLock and use the numeric keypad for arrows they work just fine...
Of course, I only think it's the Brave updates... It's entirely possible there's something else causing the problem and the Brave updates are just a red herring. It may just as easily be the way Dell have implemented the keyboard driver (never buying another Dell - I knew better but stupidly went ahead anyway
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A point worth noting is that NWC is a 32 bit program. Microsoft have written 64 bit windoze versions to handle 32 bit software correctly so I don't think that's necessarily the issue, but David's suggestions are worth considering.
I have no experience with Win11 but my reading suggests that it is a serious backward step for most users as far as reliability and privacy (from microsoft) are concerned.