G710 Numpad autoinserting 1's

Hello,
after my previous post had a posting error, which I'm pretty upset with, I'm gonna keep this try a little shorter.
When typing 0 and 2 on the numpad of the lap top, in a way that leaves the former key still pressed down, a 1 is autoinserted between the numbers, resulting in patterns like:
012012012
and
210210210
This behaviour also occurs when having disabled num, resulting in changing to insertion mode (0), typing a 1 (1), then moving a line down (2), or the other way around. Take note that it's stil typing a 1 even though the "expected" behaviour would be to skip to the end of the line.
This happens only to the numbers on the numpad of the inbuilt keyboard, in every textbox, be it this one, excel, notepad, etc. No, I'm not using any external text editing or text refining or auto correct software. No, I'm not going to install lenovo's thirdparty software to troubleshoot. Yes, all drivers are up to date. Yes, I've tried restarting the PC. No, I'm not going to reinstall my OS. I just want to know whether there's an easy and quick fix available, as this seems like a idiotically coded "feature". A registry key fix is all I ask for. I just want to get my taxes done and this behaviour isn't exactly the best premise for dealing with numpad typing. In the hopes that this can be resolved quickly...

I have the exact same problem.with numpad 2 and numpad 0.so when I type 2 I get 121212121212and with 0 I get 10101010101010

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