£ and @ symbol not working? How to fix?

blackcloud

Can anyone help? My @ and @ symbol dont work, when I press the @ symbol I get ' and if I hold the shift key down I get the " symbol.

If I hold shift down to get the pound symbol I get the # symbol?

Can anyone help?

Thanks

pappa_golf

check you have selected a UK keyboard

marleyboy

Check your language settings, it sounds as if you have Americanised the keyboard.

Go to Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region and check that you have the correct settings.

S0litaire

sounds like your keyboard is set to the wrong region.

Might be set to the USA rather than the UK

Usually on a PC search for "Region Settings" or "Keyboard settings"

agrinnall

Happened to me recently when I set up a guest account on my laptop, and for some reason it defaulted to a non-UK keyboard setting.

In Windows 10 try Settings > Time & Language > Region & language > Additional date, time & regional settings > Language > confirm that it is set to Keyboard layout: United Kingdom, and if it isn't change it.

blackcloud

iTS set at the UK setting QWERTY.

I dont know why its doing this?

[Deleted User]

Hi,

your actual keyboard layout will be 'qwerty', but as suggested above in post 3, you need to go to control panel and check/change settings.

blackcloud

Yes as I said in post 6 it is set at UK.

Ie I goto Control panel, Language, United Kingdom is highlighted. Not United States.

agrinnall

Tell us which operating system you have so we can stop wasting time giving you instructions for versions of Windows that you don't have.

blackcloud

Windows 10 it is

agrinnall

So have you done what I said in post #5?