new laptop problem

sixtyplus

Just bought my first laptop (Toshiba) but it won't accept the [EMAIL="'@'"]'@'[/EMAIL] instruction when typed no matter how many other keys I press with it. Can anyone help please?

Idiophreak

have you tried shift and 2?
What comes out if you press shift and '?

sixtyplus

Ideophreak - what a star you are. Shift and 2 did the trick wonderfully. Many, many thanks to you. Have to admit to being a bit of a nerd where laptops are concerned so its all a big learning curve. Now just got to get the router and we will be up and running. Cheers:beer:

motorguy

sixtyplus wrote: »

Just bought my first laptop (Toshiba) but it won't accept the [EMAIL="'@'"]'@'[/EMAIL] instruction when typed no matter how many other keys I press with it. Can anyone help please?

Go to accessories, wordpad, then try shift and all other keys on the keyboard one at a time. It may have been set up with the wrong default language.

Also, i take it you arent trying it in some strange context like a program / broadband installation?

Enfieldian

Check your keyboard language/layout settings.

I think you may be running on US....

John_Gray

sixtyplus wrote: »

Just bought my first laptop (Toshiba) but it won't accept the '@' instruction when typed no matter how many other keys I press with it. Can anyone help please?

It won't just be the @ key which doesn't work, but ", £, and so on...

Assuming you're running Vista, have a read through this and change the language to English (United Kingdom), or whatever similar words it offers you!

coffee_prince

As mentioned, its usually the USA keyboardsettiing that causes this, I forgot how to turn it back though, just google it