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Keyboard help!!
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Hey
A while ago, my computer went barmy, so my dad took it to his mate who's quite good with computers to wipe it all and start again. He did so, but when it came back, for some reason, it wasn't recognising my keyboard properly. The keyboard worked, but it was displaying different characters, such as if I pressed SHIFT + 2 it would display @ instead of ", and vice versa.
I remembered from my nans PC (she lives in Spain) that Spanish computers are set by default to this, and their keyboard has all the special characters and stuff that are used in their language, so I figured the computer had been set to a European setting as opposed to a U.K one.
The computer has since been to an actual PC repair shop but they hadn't noiced/changed this problem, just fixed what was making it break down. I also have a new keyboard (due to my sister spilling lemonade on mine.... :rolleyes: ) but I've just put everything together and the problems still happening. Is there any way of altering this setting as it's almost impossible to do my work on!!!
A while ago, my computer went barmy, so my dad took it to his mate who's quite good with computers to wipe it all and start again. He did so, but when it came back, for some reason, it wasn't recognising my keyboard properly. The keyboard worked, but it was displaying different characters, such as if I pressed SHIFT + 2 it would display @ instead of ", and vice versa.
I remembered from my nans PC (she lives in Spain) that Spanish computers are set by default to this, and their keyboard has all the special characters and stuff that are used in their language, so I figured the computer had been set to a European setting as opposed to a U.K one.
The computer has since been to an actual PC repair shop but they hadn't noiced/changed this problem, just fixed what was making it break down. I also have a new keyboard (due to my sister spilling lemonade on mine.... :rolleyes: ) but I've just put everything together and the problems still happening. Is there any way of altering this setting as it's almost impossible to do my work on!!!
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Go to control panel, Regional and language settings. click the Languages tab then the Details button.
Add the keyboard "English (United Kingdom) and remove English United States, also go into Language bar and make sure "Show the language bar on the desktop" is unchecked.
The mappings should now be correct, You wont need to restart (Only to remove the US mappings)