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I'm running Windows 10 on a Gateway NE56R laptop, 64 bit, which was shipped in 2012. The keyboard shortcuts, such as to copy a file or text or whatever, to duplicate a file, paste, and whatever others, stopped working about six months ago. That was in the previous version of Windows 10, I'm now running the latest version, but that has not solved the problem. I cannot figure out how to get them working again. I hope it is something I accidentally turned off, but I have looked all over, and all the settings I find seem to be correct. I don't see any to specifically turn on or off keyboard shortcuts. I have tried tapping all the function keys, nothing affected keyboard shortcuts. Can someone help me get these working again? You cannot know how important they are until you can't use them.

That is good to hear. I await your next golden suggestion. I researched on Google months back and tried various things until I hit a wall. So, maybe you are on the other side of that wall. I'm wondering if there is some odd setting somewhere in the OS, under settings or control panels of somewhere else, that might be causing this. I turned off various settings for privacy reasons even in the previous version of Win10. Sometimes those things do more than is obvious. But at this point,I don't even know what I turned off.

OK, Helpdesk. I would have thought that is for help with this Website. Got it. I just tried the first option. That sounds familiar, like I tried that many months back. I found two things under Keyboards, both HID-something, but I have only one keyboard. I uninstalled them both. And then restarted the machine. Upon restart, keyboard shortcuts still do not work. (Actually, its been so long since I've been able to use them, I actually forgetting what they are, but I retried all possible combination, they don't work.) Looked in Device Manager, it has two of those HID-something items back, for one keyboard. I guess its supposed to have two? I have no other keyboard hooked up, only the built-in one. So I tried the second option. But running it, I see that's just an alternate way to get to Device Manger to do the same thing. So, that did not work -- and I'm pretty sure I had tired it some months ago. Thanks. Any other ideas?