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New Laptop Problem

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  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    spud17 wrote: »
    I'd go back to basics, are the Region also Language, found in Control Panel, set correctly?
    If keyboard is set to e.g. US, then '@' symbol and a few others can be transposed, meaning you may not be typing in your wifi code as you think.

    This is definitely possible, I've found that Win 10 is quite keen to default to US English and has to be forced to switch to UK.
  • spud17
    spud17 Posts: 4,441 Forumite
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    agrinnall wrote: »
    This is definitely possible, I've found that Win 10 is quite keen to default to US English and has to be forced to switch to UK.

    Only suggested it because the Anniversary Edition update changed one of mine. :)
    Move along, nothing to see.
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