Here is something you may want to try. Take your pointer down on the task bar where nothing is there and right click on it and scroll up to where it says "show touch keyboard button" and left click on it with your mouse to choose it. Now you will see a keyboard icon down in the bottom right corner of your screen left click on it with your mouse to bring up the on screen keyboard. So now to your bottom left you will see a smiley face click on it and you will see lots of emojis to explore. Oh yeah, another thing you will see a settings type icon up in the top left corner of the on screen keyboard to adjust the layout how you want the keyboard to look like.
Thank You Prince for your feedback.
I did what you suggested some time ago and I was able to post a few smileys back onto this forum with that suggestion of yours.
However, they were disabled again shortly afterwards on Pete's Forum.
I run Windows 10 same as Pete - internally, his works fine on the forum, mine does not.
I did a BIOS update, but still have to utilize outside sources to use any smileys of any sort on his forum.
Are you familiar with the Cortana settings with windows 10?
Could it be my Cortana or ABP settings which I've set both to extreme privacy without any third-party tracking that perhaps is causing the problem?
Either way, I'm content with the outside sources that are readily available to me that you taught me.
It is a bit of a hassle having to open up a second window to choose such, however, when choosing to attach to my posts.
But, I do appreciate your time with this issue and I thank you for your continued guidance, because it still appears that I am the only registered member here that is unable to access the "internal smileys" while posting on Pete's Forum.