Odd Keyboard Poblem

[Guest Neil]

Does anyone know of any way to change the regional setting for a keyboard

other than via the control panel?

 

I have a friends Dell laptop and the keyboard was typing the @ sybol when I

press " and vice versa.

 

Realising this was probably caused by the regional setting being wrong I

went and changed then in 'Control Panel' this seems to not have worked as my

symbols are still reversed.

 

Is there any where else I can go to change the settings or does anyone have

any other thoughts on what might cause this.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

Neil

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Odd Keyboard Poblem

 

 

"Neil" <Neil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:B44170AA-D2EC-4606-A34E-466FF01A8F28@microsoft.com...

> Does anyone know of any way to change the regional setting for a keyboard

> other than via the control panel?

>

> I have a friends Dell laptop and the keyboard was typing the @ sybol when

> I

> press " and vice versa.

>

> Realising this was probably caused by the regional setting being wrong I

> went and changed then in 'Control Panel' this seems to not have worked as

> my

> symbols are still reversed.

>

> Is there any where else I can go to change the settings or does anyone

> have

> any other thoughts on what might cause this.

>

> Thanks in advance

>

>

> Neil

 

You can specify a hotkey combination to change languages. Click

Start / Help and look for help on "Language". There is whole

section on "Customizing key sequences".

[Guest Nightowl]

Re: Odd Keyboard Poblem

 

Neil <Neil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Sun, 1 Jun 2008:

>Does anyone know of any way to change the regional setting for a keyboard

>other than via the control panel?

>

>I have a friends Dell laptop and the keyboard was typing the @ sybol when I

>press " and vice versa.

>

>Realising this was probably caused by the regional setting being wrong I

>went and changed then in 'Control Panel' this seems to not have worked as my

>symbols are still reversed.

>

>Is there any where else I can go to change the settings or does anyone have

>any other thoughts on what might cause this.

>

 

Hi Neil

 

Did you change just the language setting or the keyboard setting too? It

might be that you have the keyboard set to the wrong "flavour" of

English -- the UK keyboard has the @ and " in the reverse positions to

the US keyboard, for example.

 

Check in Regional and Language Options | Languages | Details under

Keyboard that it really is set to what you need. If the setting is

wrong, add the driver you want, make it default and then remove the

unwanted one.

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Nightowl