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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Kayla on December 16, 2002, 20:22

Title: My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Kayla on December 16, 2002, 20:22: Please help - I let my younger cousin use my PC when he came to visit, and now all my keyboard keys are jumbled. The letters are all OK, but some of the symbols have moved around. So when I press the @ key I get a " and vice-versa. This is the annoying one, because I write lots of emails.

Please be gentle, I'm a bit dim when it comes to PC's :)
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Simon on December 16, 2002, 20:29: Hi Kayla, and welcome to the forum!

It sounds like your dear sweet cousin might have moved some of your keys around as a joke! Why don't you just swap them back, and see how that goes? You should be able to gently prise them off and pop them back on again. The clue is when you said it happens vice-versa! ;D ;D
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Adept on December 16, 2002, 20:42: Hi Kayla, welcome to our forum. I hope you'll be happy here!

If Simon's suggestion doesn't work out for you, you'll probably find that the locale for your keyboard has been changed to a different country.

You need to go to Control Panel and choose the "Regional and Language options" or "Keyboard Settings" depending on your operating system and choose the correct language setting for your country.

Let us know if you need further help.
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: DJ on December 17, 2002, 09:56: Welcome Kayla,

Adepts post should solve the problem. I had the same problem some time ago when I pressed the Shift + 2 i got the @ character and pressing shift + ' got the " (Wrong way round!).

So changing your keyboard language from US to UK should work.

DJ1UK
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Kayla on December 17, 2002, 11:00: Thanks :)

Sounds better than getting the knife out. I assume that Simon is the forum joker ? :)
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Adept on December 17, 2002, 11:04: Quote from: Kayla on December 17, 2002, 11:00

I assume that Simon is the forum joker ? :)

LOL Kayla, it's just that we don't let him out of his box very often. He gets a bit over-excited when he sees new members ;) ;D
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Tony on December 17, 2002, 12:43: Quote
Quote from: Adept LOL Kayla, it's just that we don't let him out of his box very often. He gets a bit over-excited when he sees new members ;) ;D [/quote

especially when their pretty young fillies, I'm supprised rodders hasn't been along to say Helllloooooo ;)

Only kidding, Kayla, and welcome on board, we are a freindly bunch here.

catch.
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Clive on December 17, 2002, 13:18: In all fairness to Simon he usually gives good advice and I put the same interpretation on it myself. But Adept is a professional and it shows. ;D Welcome to the forum Kayla.
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Sandra on December 17, 2002, 13:22: Quote from: Kayla on December 17, 2002, 11:00

Thanks :)

I assume that Simon is the forum joker ? :)

I think that honour used to belong to Clive, Kayla. I did wonder what Simon was smoking when he posted that and was going to ask him for some for Xmas ;)
Welcome aboard we need all the girls ( as long as theyre not blondes :P ) we can get on here ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Tony on December 17, 2002, 14:22: Quote
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Quote from: Sandra [quote author=Kayla I assume that Simon is the forum joker ? :) [/quote

I think that honour used to belong to Clive

Well if Miss Bobbit is going to get the knife out to the forum joker, all I can say is, Clive's welcome to that particulare honour. ;D

catch
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Clive on December 17, 2002, 14:27: Ouch! ;D
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Simon on December 17, 2002, 17:44: Well, I was thinking from the prospective of what a 'younger cousin' might do if he thought it might be funny to mess about with 'Cousin Kayla's' keyboard, which is why I came up with what was, to me, the obvious thing to check!

Never mind - hope you get it sorted, Kayla! ;D ;D
Title: Re:My keyboard is muddled - help !
Post by: Rodders on December 17, 2002, 19:24: Quote from: catch22 on December 17, 2002, 12:43
I'm supprised rodders hasn't been along to say Helllloooooo ;)

Helllloooooo, Kayla. ;D