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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