Rick Hurst's weblog est.2002 :: windows XP keyboard mapping

windows XP keyboard mapping

This post was written 9 years ago.

Fri, 28 Feb 2003

sometimes I think I don't deserve a career in IT - I just spent a good half an hour completely stumped as to how to change the keyboard mapping from US to UK on a win XP box!

To do this, go to control panel ->regional and language options->languages->text services and input languages

obvious when you look at it, but could I find it?

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Thankyou I've just been struggling too.

Chris Parkinson 2007-03-12 20:29:53

Thank you. It's not easy to find. I added English (Ireland) but had to remove the entry for US to get the correct mappings for @ and ".

Mick Ruddy 2007-05-09 22:19:24

Thanks, worked perfectly.

Carl Dennis 2008-01-18 16:02:16

Hi i am looking for the divide button on my laptop on a uk keyboard can you help ??

Robin 2009-07-25 00:43:00

Many thanks to you and to Mick Ruddy. I had tried adding the UK keyboard to my Dell previously, but thought I could switch between them - didn't realize I had to delete the US keyboard before the UK one would work properly.

G Robert Thompson 2009-10-07 15:04:32

I rebuilt my PC a year ago and since then it thought it was US setting - despite the obvious regional settings pointing at the UK

The Key board was always mapped wrong so the @ sign was always at SHift-2

This info here fixed it - thats great - the simplest things make the world go round...

Thanks Dude

James 2009-10-17 11:01:19

This post was written 9 years ago, which in internet time is really, really old. This means that what is written above, and the links contained within, may now be obsolete, inaccurate or wildly out of context, so please bear that in mind :)

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