Keyboard ?

[Mike Richards]

Hi
Being a computer nobody with little knowledge ! i have a problem with keyboards ,or how they are set up
if you press shift @ what apears is this *
if uou press shift 2 what you get is @
i have looked at various menu's and i can't get things as they should be, i have changed keyboards thinking that the first was faulty but this made no difference .
Any Ideas as to what i do to solv this ?

 

[Impotence]

Welcome to hardwareforums Mike Richards :beer:

It sounds like your keyboard layout is set for an American keyboard, there are instructions on how to change your keyboard layout in windows XP & Vista HERE

I cant remember the name of the keyboard layout you want, but i know it is referred to as a generic UK or Brittish layout (or something similar), i would check for you but i don't run windows and can't find any screen shots of it in google, sorry!

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Obviously you only want the British layout if you have a British keyboard (but from your description i think you do)
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