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DOS box - keyboard settings

johnmc
johnmc Posts: 1,265 Forumite
Acer 5735 laptop running Vista.

Keyboard works fine in Windows but in a DOS Command box it types in American, ie " comes up as @ and vice versa.

Checked the Keyboard and Language settings and can't see anything there.

Checked the Keyboard settings and seems OK there.

Any suggestions?

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  • geewhiz
    geewhiz Posts: 1,129 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi, your dos settings are probably still American, in the DOS prompt you can type:

    KB16 UK and press Enter, you won't get a response but also won't get an error.

    A permanent fix is to add a new line to your autoexec.nt file:

    LH KB16 UK,,%/SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\KEYBOARD.SYS
  • johnmc
    johnmc Posts: 1,265 Forumite
    Works a treat! Thank you.
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