Bingo!
My son was using my computer while drinking a soda. It ends up he stole some soda in the keyboard and cleaned up without telling me. So the soda dried overnight and got rather sticky. When I depressed NumLock for some obscure reason the next day it stuck in the down position. Experiments in Notepad proved the case. Sure it is embarrassing!
Thanks all!
Ross
"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message news:OleNfF2HJHA.4240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Sounds as if you have NumLock on - hitting the Del key with numlock on
> generates a period instead of a Del command.
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> "Ross M. Greenberg" <greenber@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> What is the best newsgroup for asking questions for Windows Mail under Vista
> Ultimate?
>
> This morning when I was checking my e-mail my gray delete key could
> not/would not function as it had a last night. Instead of deleting the
> highlighted mail message, it just beeps. I can still delete from the
> context menu. The weirdest thing! It worked last night when I went to bed,
> and the machine was not turned off. Weird!
>