ooh you are a clever type!
wish I'd known this last november, managed to drunkenly spill not 1 but 2 vodka lemonades all over my smart (just past its warranty) laptop, the thing still turns on even to this day and windows loads up just fine plus I can get my media player to play some choons, however the keypad is shot to bits so in order to access any websites or type an email I had to copy and save every letter, symbol and number from a web page and save to a notepad and when needing to type a web address or message I would painstakingly copy and paste each letter individually lol... it nearly drove me mental until I could afford to replace it with this cheaper lappy... it also would randomly cascade windows on my desktop for no particular reason!
Oh well the perils of drinking and hard driving!!! You are a clever clever person though so have a woo from me!
( catweasle neither a cat nor a weasle, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 19:44, 3 replies)

If it's just the keyboard,
those are generally pretty easy to replace (depending on how evil the case designer was feeling). Take a look on eBay for spare parts!
( benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 19:45, closed)

lol
I did try to open up the lappy to dry it out but panicked after about the 7 millionth screw and just knew I'd never be able to put it all back together again... I blasted my hair dryer at it... wonder if that hindered or helped?????????????????
( catweasle neither a cat nor a weasle, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 0:44, closed)

onscreen keyboard never occured to you?
eh?
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 20:27, closed)

External Keyboard, maybe?

(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 0:18, closed)

??
onscreen keyboard?? explain to a complete technophobe pls (I only frequent B3ta for the fluffeh kittens and occassional funny vids) I know not what you speak of!!!

I tried an external keyboard which worked for 1 day (maybe slightly less) and then refused to comply!!??

Please excuse my obvious ignorance and try not to flame me too harshly i can't even work out how to use the virgin media catch up thingy on the telly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( catweasle neither a cat nor a weasle, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 0:39, closed)

Well on XP you need to click
Start = Programs = Accessories = Accessibility = On-screen Keyboard.

Just click on whatever letter/number etc. you want. Just like typing on a PDA.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 10:55, closed)

Ah I see!
Thank you muchly, I will try that later (when I can be arsed to get off my backside and climb the stairs) !!!
( catweasle neither a cat nor a weasle, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 12:43, closed)