@ and " becoming transposed, French keyboqrd

p1an0player

Sometimes over the last few months, @ and " have become transposed. In other words I type " but @ comes up, and vice versa.

Today firefox has suddenly decided that my keyboard is French (it isn't) and so it goes azerty across the top and A is Q etc.

Is this the sign of a virus?

Thank you

albertross_2

if you search the techie forum for "pound sign", you'll probably find the answer.. you need an english keyboard.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.html?searchid=6905830

thomas01155

thanks i had this problem.

thomas01155

thanks i had this problem.

albertross_2

Just about anyone outside the US who has [re]installed Windows has.., one day they'll make it easy for the rest of us to get the correct kb settings.

tr3mor

albertross wrote:

Just about anyone outside the US who has [re]installed Windows has.., one day they'll make it easy for the rest of us to get the correct kb settings.

Well, if you actually read the screen whilst reinstalling instead of just clicking "next" over and over you wouldn't have this problem!

albertross_2

I think you'll find there is more to it than that. This has been going on for more than 10 years with every successive release of a Microsoft O/S, and setting the locale on the XP installation screen does not resolve all the English KB issues, you have to start digging around the settings on the buttons during the installation to do it properly, not at all intuitive.

tr3mor

albertross wrote:

I think you'll find there is more to it than that. This has been going on for more than 10 years, and setting the local on the XP installation screen does not resolve all the English KB issues, you have to start digging around the settings on the buttons during the installation to do it properly, not at all intuitive.

I've been installing systems for about 8 years now and have never had any problems.

albertross_2

try going to the command prompt, and doing a £. XP is better than most of the Microsoft O/S's during installation, but none of them do it properly and simply, whether you set it to uk or not, XP still leave the US kb setting, unless you delete it manually.