Getting keyboard layout back to UK from USA...

[Cobra]

Hi guys,

I just reformatted and reinstalled Win XP Home onto my PC. It normally asks me about keyboard layouts and languages, but this time it didn't. I didn't think anything of it until I found out @ and " characters are reversed!

I'm sure the fix is simple but I can't find the settings allowing me to swap to a UK keyboard.

Does anyone know where these are in Win XP?

Thanks!

Cobra

[Cobra]

Sorry, just stumbled on it and got the answer. You do the following (for reference):

- Open Regional and Language Options in Control Panels
- Click the Languages tab
- Click the "Details" button under "Text services...."
- Drop the menu down, select "UK English" and select the UK keyboard layout
- Click "Apply" and "OK"
- Click "OK"

Sorted!

Cobra

[flaninacupboard]

And you make money from this crap!

[Capmaster]

I didn't think anything of it until I found out @ and " characters are reversed!

That's because when you brought Windows home from the store you drove on the wrong side of the road

[Cobra]

Nah, I ordered this one from Amazon. You'd never believe the trouble I had activating it. It was originally for my old Dell machine as an upgrade and Microsoft said I could transfer it to my new machine no bother. When I first came to activate it I had to phone and get a special unlock code. It worked, no problem.

This morning, however, the code wouldn't work (a fresh one, can't use codes more than once) and it put me through to a Microsoft Rep. He interrogated me for a while and asked for product keys etc. before he gave me a new unlock code that would work. Maybe they thought I was a pirate?

To be fair, Microsoft were fast and polite about it and now my XP is working fine. I'm just not looking forward to installing it again and repeating 15 minutes on the phone...

Cobra