Y Yek T.F's Resident Cool Guy... Messages 1,613 Feb 2, 2008 #1 Recently reformatted my laptop, keys are all in the wrong place. @ is swapped with " and #, | and I cant even find the pound sign. I take it this is American format, but how do I change it. Arghh :laughing:
Recently reformatted my laptop, keys are all in the wrong place. @ is swapped with " and #, | and I cant even find the pound sign. I take it this is American format, but how do I change it. Arghh :laughing:
V Vaanish Fully Optimized Messages 1,693 Location Yorkshire, UK Feb 2, 2008 #2 Control Panel -> Date Time Language Regional Options -> Regional and Language options.
OP OP Y Yek T.F's Resident Cool Guy... Messages 1,613 Feb 2, 2008 #3 Diddn't fix it, everything is set to English (United Kingdom)
Nick Everything to Nothing Messages 4,053 Location Wales Feb 2, 2008 #4 go to the language toolbar and add the UK keyboard input and delete the american one, you will need to log out then in again for it to take effect
go to the language toolbar and add the UK keyboard input and delete the american one, you will need to log out then in again for it to take effect
OP OP Y Yek T.F's Resident Cool Guy... Messages 1,613 Feb 2, 2008 #5 Incase you haven't done this already, little blue men pop out from inbetween the keys, pick them up, and move them about Thanks for the quick fix
Incase you haven't done this already, little blue men pop out from inbetween the keys, pick them up, and move them about Thanks for the quick fix
Nick Everything to Nothing Messages 4,053 Location Wales Feb 3, 2008 #6 Good cos it troubled me for a long long time
OP OP Y Yek T.F's Resident Cool Guy... Messages 1,613 Feb 3, 2008 #7 It gets to the point where you go back on an english system and have to learn all the keys again
Nick Everything to Nothing Messages 4,053 Location Wales Feb 4, 2008 #8 haha or you just look at the keyboard
OP OP Y Yek T.F's Resident Cool Guy... Messages 1,613 Feb 4, 2008 #9 Never did learn to do that very well
Trotter Grandfather of Techist, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Staff member Messages 33,560 Location The South Feb 4, 2008 #10 ...or just learn to use the the RIGHT configuration.