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mikethemadmonk:
My pc is typing on it's own. Whenever I try to type the letter P, It types R, and then begins typing an old password of mine. I have tried everything I can think of, to no avail. Obviously it is making the pc useless.
All help gratefully received.

Boggin:
To start with I would suggest checking to see if this still happens in Safe Mode, but I believe an antimalware scan in Safe Mode with Networking would be prudent.

For that I would suggest downloading in Safe Mode with Networking and running a scan with the ESET Free Online Scanner to see what that finds.

https://www.eset.com/uk/home/online-scanner/

mikethemadmonk:
Thanks for the input, however I have already tried this and also done a complete scan for malware. I have Eset protection and it finds nothing. This is definately a fault in windows 10.

Boggin:
I wouldn't have thought so if it is typing out an old password but to see if there is a fault in Windows, open a Command Prompt (Admin) and enter these cmds - each of which will take a while to run.

dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

sfc /scannow

The first two should successfully complete but the sfc /scannow will tell you if any corruption remains.

Let me know if it reports anything other than no integrity violations found.

Enter exit to close the cmd window.

BTW - Did it still occur in Safe Mode ?

satrow:

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What software are you typing into?

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