Keyboard gremlin?

[scotty73]

This is a strange one but i've seen it on my mates keyboard and now mine.
The @ sign is now shift and 2
And the pound sign is non existant, wtf is going on anyone know?

[lozz]

Go into settings and change the keyboard,

Mines the same but im to lazy to change it


google says : Go to Control Panel, Keyboard, Input locales (or similar) and change to UK
keyboard.

edit thats B/s ive just tried it,
it dont work,


go into control panel and click on regional and language options yours will be set on English (united states)

[scotty73]

go into control panel and click on regional and language options yours will be set on English (united states)

It sure was mate but even after changing it... It's the same.

[gumby6371]

IIRC on XP you have to change language and keyboard to english (UK) & and presumably Vista just has the one setting for both.

When I used to set up XP machines it always defaulted to US, I always change it to UK then delete the US options.

[scotty73]

When I used to set up XP machines it always defaulted to US, I always change it to UK then delete the US options.

Think that's what i've done wrong, last week i got a new base unit but while installing xp i couldn't see the English uk option. Any idea if there's another way to change it? because going through control panel it asks to insert the xp disk and i ain't got one.

[gumby6371]

My XP knowledge is a bit rusty, is the language bar still active in the bottom right corner by the system tray? you can change it there. If it's not there I think you can right click on a blank spot nesr the system tray and re-open it using the toolbars tab (I think).
Other than that you can open it via control panel but like I said I'm a bit rusty and can't remember the exact path.

[scotty73]

My XP knowledge is a bit rusty, is the language bar still active in the bottom right corner by the system tray? you can change it there. If it's not there I think you can right click on a blank spot nesr the system tray and re-open it using the toolbars tab (I think).
Other than that you can open it via control panel but like I said I'm a bit rusty and can't remember the exact path.

Language bar is still there but it won't let me un tick English us... I might just run it for a few weeks to make sure nothing brakes down then instal win7... Problem is i don't have a recovery disk only a restore point which i think is no good without the disk?

[gumby6371]

have you added English UK to the list first ? You need to add it before removing the us option

[scotty73]

have you added English UK to the list first ? You need to add it before removing the us option

Do you mean like this?