Can any of the techies help me.

We had a power cut on Sunday and (for some unknown reason) my UPS and power management software didn't kick in. When I rebooted after the power came back, the windows scan disk thingy found a few errors and bad sectors on the HD. When Windows fired up, all my links on the start menu had gone - not a problem to drag and drop them back there.

But my keyboard settings have changed - shift 2 comes out with @ and shift 3 comes up with #. Where the @ should be, comes up with ".

Not having a pound sign (shift 3) is driving me crazy!!

I've looked at Keyboard in the control panel and it is 'working properly' and the country settings are to UK.

Any ideas anyone.

Thanks in advance

Paul

You are set for a US keyboard Paul, that's where their keys are. Your dialogs may vary, according to Operating System, but look for "input locales" as well as country settings. You need to ensure you add UK to the list, after which you can remove the US entry. You might look in the system tray (the area at the RH end of the taskbar) to see if you have a little blue square with "EN" written in it. If so click on this and it will take you straight to the input locales dialog.

HTH :cheers:

I've looked at Keyboard in the control panel and it is 'working properly' and the country settings are to UK.

Any ideas anyone.

Thanks in advance

Paul

Sometimes you have to save it (don't ask how) otherwise it will stay on us settings. It was a pig to do when i replace my computer a year or so ago.

Thanks Nick,

I'm on XP and what I needed was in "Text Services and Input Languages" on the Regional and Language Settings. I had to click 'Details' for it to come up, which is why I missed in before.

how do you do the euro sign?

Control+Alt+4 =

asspick will be there in 5

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what did you miss me?