Hi,
I ran into an extremely frustrating situation: somehow the US keyboard layout disappeared from the list of installed layouts. Without it, I can't type my password at the login screen. I was left with a Hebrew keyboard, which has Hebrew letters and uppercase English letters. Unfortunately my password was in lowercase.
Any ideas before I re-install?
Thanks,
Ron
type keyboard language into start menu search box and click on change keyboards or other input methods in the results pane on the left :)
Last edited by brianzion; 17 Dec 2010 at 11:53. Reason: update with screenshot
In the login window, can you see a button with text at the bottom left corner of the screen? If yes, then it should display text, like for example "EN". This is the keyboard layout language. Make sure that this is set to the correct language, click the button to change the layout language.
If you see no such button it means theres only one keyboard layout available. In that case, try tapping F8 at boot to get into safe mode and see whether you can enter the password.
If nothing works, try using system restore to before this problem started.
there is a microsoft fix it for this hereHow to use the United States-International keyboard layout in Windows 7, in Windows Vista, and in Windows XP
Thank you, Brianzion and Bill2, for your almost immediate replies!
Unfortunately, Brian, I can't use your solution since I'm still stuck at the login screen, which is why I had to post this question.
Bill, there is a drop-down list (although it's at the upper-left corner of the login screen, not the bottom-left), but it only has one entry and it's "Hebrew." That's how I figured out what's wrong, although I still don't understand how the US layout got lost.
So, back to the original question.
TRY THIS
RE-BOOT system and when you See Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys Twice and it’ll show Classic Login box. Now type “Administrator” (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank.(or put the password you used at install of windows) Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows. Now you can reset your account password from “Control Panel -> User Accounts”.
Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.
or using the repair disc or windows installation disc can you change the keyboard layout using the command prompt? i dont no the command looking for you now
Safe Mode still requires me to enter my password. Makes sense, when you think about it...
Do you have a win7 install dvd or a system repair disk? you can run system restore from that. See method 2 in this tut.
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