Windows 7 - the hyphen at the beginning of everything I want to type

I have Windows 7. I think I must have held a key on the left side of the keyboard down for too long and now I automatically have a hyphen (dash) at the beginning of everything I want to type including the passwords and emails which means that I must always go back to remove the hyphen. How can I fix this?

Hello annaTX,

To remove a hardware problem with keyboard, attach another keyboard and see if the problem persists. It really looks like a hardware problem.

Answer please come back and let us know.

Marilyn

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