Windows 7 - Keystrokes not right on new netbook

ICit2lol · 01-18-2012

here's a curly one - setting up an Acer netbook for a friend and come put in her email the @ comes out as " and vice versa.

Thiscan only be a software or hardware problem if the latter then I've spent the best part of four hours of setting up and Windows updates.

Is this reversible by any chance?

Qdos · 01-18-2012

Your regional settings would seem to imply you have the keyboard layout perhaps set as US English and not for your own locale...

mickey megabyte · 01-18-2012

yep, that sounds about right, Q

@ICit2lol - control panel >> change keyboards or other input methods (located under Clock, Language and Region) >> change keyboards...

ICit2lol · 01-18-2012

Thanks fellas the original setup was done by her boyfriend and I guess thats why the weather gadget looked odd to me - brilliant are you both - may the force be with you now and forever

(yep I am about as big as Yoda lol!!)

Oh it was set to UK time / date and some place in the Pacific ocean for region and language. She did say he was really much of a computer person. Plus I have learnt something tonight as I started thinking the machine was misfiring!

Windows 7 - Keystrokes not right on new netbook

Keystrokes not right on new netbook problems?