Keyboard trouble

[welshboy]

Hello all,
I have just upgraded from xp home edition to xp pro and the buttons on my keyboard have canged for example i have to shift and 2 to get an @ sign, number 2 is normally " so them two buttons have swoped and i dont know how to get a pound sign it is normally shift and 3 but if i do that it comes up as # this.
Any help would be extremely helpful.
Thanks all.

[Stellavision]

You are probably running your keyboard in US mode.
Go to:
Start - Settings - Control Panel -
Regional & Language options - Languages - Details - Select English (United Kingdom) in Default input language setting.

You normally have to set this up in the Win XP install proccess or it will automatically default to US.

[welshboy]

nope this didnt work thanks for your help anyway.

[Werner]

welshboy, your problem is not unique, it happens to everybody that install xp by themselves and perhaps missed a dialog box or two and select united states as the keyboard layout.
The fix that Stellavision suggested is indeed the right fix, perhaps you can go back and check? Itis important that you only have on language there, english united kindgom.

The weird keymapping you see is exactly in line with a US keyboard layout, which is why the fix suggested is exactly the right thing to do to correct it.

If it didnt work, then you didnt do it right.
:grin:

[welshboy]

ok its now fixed thanks for the instructions :thumbsup: .
££££££££££££££££££££ got my £ sign back.