Keyboard keeps reverting to US settings instead of UK
Hi Folks
This is getting really frustrating. Just working away on my main xpsp2 desktop PC, in the UK, and wanting UK keyboard settings.
It keeps getting set back to US settings , so " comes out as @ etc. Sometimes it does it every few minutes.
I'm not really using any strange software. Outlook, MS development tools, IE6, Sql tools etc. Its the same through RDP (both PCs on UK settings by default) or on the "console". When using rdp the laptop only has UK settings available, but the "server" xp machine still keeps switching to US settings
I have tried removing US settings completely but it always says they're in use and will be removed at next reboot, of course, they never are.
Gets worse still when I use webex, but definitely bad even when webex never started since reboot.
This is getting really frustrating. Just working away on my main xpsp2 desktop PC, in the UK, and wanting UK keyboard settings.
It keeps getting set back to US settings , so " comes out as @ etc. Sometimes it does it every few minutes.
I'm not really using any strange software. Outlook, MS development tools, IE6, Sql tools etc. Its the same through RDP (both PCs on UK settings by default) or on the "console". When using rdp the laptop only has UK settings available, but the "server" xp machine still keeps switching to US settings
I have tried removing US settings completely but it always says they're in use and will be removed at next reboot, of course, they never are.
Gets worse still when I use webex, but definitely bad even when webex never started since reboot.
Sorry, didnt get it all..
>"I have tried removing US settings completely but it always says they're in use and will be removed at next reboot, of course, they never are."
But did you change the default?
>"I have tried removing US settings completely but it always says they're in use and will be removed at next reboot, of course, they never are."
But did you change the default?
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Yes, I changed the default and attempted to delete US settings.
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I stopped all services with msconfig, rebooted then deleted the US keyb settings, then rebooted again, and restored services
Thats fixed it.
Thats fixed it.
Excellent! Good to know..
Glad we could help!
Glad we could help!
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Nightmare this problem keeps coming back. I repeated the removal procedure. But US settings magically come back and now every time I start outlook it switches to US settings when I explicitly set it to UK settings just before starting outlook
In the window that now popped up you can set the UK to standard, remove the US keyboard settings, and you should be ok.