To ask the obvious first (I often overlook it! ), Is it a wireless  keyboard? 
(change batteries), have you tried wiggling the keyboard cord while  typing 
or un-and re-plugging it to see if it's a cable problem? 
 
I'm not sure why you can't do a save as if the mouse is working??? 
 
Hope this is a helpful starting point,
 
Phil
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/15/2006 9:51:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
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I have  an Emachine running Windows XP Home. Once in a while - fortunately,  
infrequently - my keyboard will go away. The computer (or Windows operating  
system) can't see it and the only way I can get things back to normal is to  
reboot the machine. I have been unable to figure out if it is related to a  
specific program or not, as I said it doesn't happen very often.

Does  anyone have a clue or, equally important, is there a way to recover the 
 keyboard without rebooting the machine? Sometimes when it quits, I am in 
Word  or notepad or some other program entering some sort of data and will lose 
some  of it. If I have saved the data before the problem I can use the mouse to 
save  what I have typed since then but, If I have just started to do 
something by  creating a new file, I cannot do a 'save as' and type in a file name and 
 simply have to reboot.





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