Topic: My keyboard is muddled - help !

[Kayla]

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  

[Simon]

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!  

[Adept]

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.

[DJ]

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

[Kayla]

Thanks  

Sounds better than getting the knife out.  I assume that Simon is the forum joker ?  

[Adept]

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  

[Tony]

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.

[Clive]

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.    Welcome to the forum Kayla.

[Sandra]

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   ) we can get on here  

[Tony]

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.  

catch

[Clive]

Ouch!  

[Simon]

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!  

[Rodders]

I'm supprised rodders hasn't been along to say Helllloooooo  

Helllloooooo, Kayla.