For some reason my tab is not working on my Windows 7 based laptop. It's not a broken key because Alt+Tab works fine, attempts to pick up the "Tab" key by any application that lets me 'set keys' to an action also works fine. It even works fine in an RDP environment (though not TeamViewer)... however, when I'm working directly on the laptop, I cannot tab through text fields on any application and I cannot insert a tab character in a text editor.
I did some testing in a javascript event logger and I noticed the Tab key is only registering a "keyup" event and not a "keydown" or "keypress" event. I'm not sure Tab is supposed to register a "keypress" event but I'm pretty sure it is supposed to register a "keydown" event which might be the root of my problem.
The other weird thing is the On Screen Keyboard application behaves the exact same way and causes the same problems in all instances as my regular keyboard.
I couldn't find any solutions on the internet. Anyone have any idea what might be going on?