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Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping'
Sunday, October 5, 2003 at 1:23 am
Posted by salman (4 messages posted)

when I first got this computer I had windows me on it. Due to its instibility I got windows 98 which I thought was a secure system though it was quit old and I was not satisfied with the lack of features on it. So I decided to get windows xp. When I got it I loved this system. There were only a few problems which annoyed me. I would appreciate it if somebody could help me with them. The first problem is with my keyboard mapping. The alphabets and all that work fine but a few keys such as the question mark key are showing something else on the computer when I type them. For example if I press the semi colon key I get ¨ that. There are many other keys which if I press something alse comes up. How can I fix this.

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re: Question about 'Customize Your Keyboard Mapping'
Sunday, October 5, 2003 at 1:45 pm
Posted by Jean Rosenfeld (263 messages posted)

You probably have the keyboard setting for a different region or language. Try control panel, regional and language options, languages tab, click details. Check that the default language is the one you want (e.g. English US, or English UK, or other variants depending on where you are). If the one you want is not shown in the drop down box, click add and in the new drop down box select the one you want.


On Sunday, October 5, 2003 at 1:23 am, Salman wrote:
>when I first got this computer I had windows me on it. Due to its instibility I got
>windows 98 which I thought was a secure system though it was quit old and I was not
>satisfied with the lack of features on it. So I decided to get windows xp. When I
>got it I loved this system. There were only a few problems which annoyed me. I would
>appreciate it if somebody could help me with them. The first problem is with my keyboard
>mapping. The alphabets and all that work fine but a few keys such as the question
>mark key are showing something else on the computer when I type them. For example
>if I press the semi colon key I get ¨ that. There are many other keys which if I
>press something alse comes up. How can I fix this.
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