XP's unexpected surprises

A friend of mine was doing remote assistance via msn, helping me solve a problem on my laptop. And then after that, the laptop went haywire. All the text i type in msn, outlook, ms word etc comes out garbled. There is no coherent word that can be typed,, everything typed comes out like ...
D$%$#dsfhW@RFDWSFE@yj#@#sed%$
etc
I have winxp home edition. Please help!!!!!!
Thanks in advance
ES

ES
Monday, August 16, 2004

Don't trust your friend. He's a dirty guy.

Another piece of advice, keep your girl away from him. :-)

Anon
Monday, August 16, 2004

Use the mouse to check the KeyBoard and the Region and Language settings in Control Panel

And he's not your friend ...

trollop
Monday, August 16, 2004

ok, i did a system restore, and it works fine now. And now to go kick my "friend's" ass :)

ES
Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Can a surprise be expected? Surely it wouldn't then be a surprise.

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Of course a surprise can be expected.  When I installed XP SP2 I expected some surprises but did not know what they would be...

O Canader
Tuesday, August 17, 2004

You probably expected that MS would have fscked something up. I guess you weren't surprised.

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

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