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Might be of help, missing £ sign WinXP - Spycam - 06-Nov-2006
My 18 month old laptop has never hwd a £ sign and the @ was in the wrong place. Just worked out what was wrong and sorted it out as follows....
Windows XP.
control panel >
regional options >
under "pick a task" click "add other languages"
click "advanced"
select "alter language to English (UK)"
click OK
all finished
- Sharon - 07-Nov-2006
Do you know what Roy.... my pound sign dosn't work on my laptop and my @ sign is where my speech marks are. I will follow your instructions and see if they work!
- Spycam - 08-Nov-2006
Sharon, it should sort the problem. Let us know how you get on please.
- anacortesdamp - 08-Nov-2006
But what if you want to retain the English US keyboard. but just want to upot a pound sign in occasionally?
Frank
- noel - 08-Nov-2006
Frank, you can go into the keyboard character map, ( start-accessories-system tools-charactermap) and select any of the symbols there press the copy button and it allows you to "paste" the symbol in the appropriate places.
- anacortesdamp - 08-Nov-2006
Thanks Noel.
Frank
- Spycam - 08-Nov-2006
Hello Frank, hope you are keeping well.
As I understand it there are 101 key and 104 key keyboards. Our laptops were set at 101 key from the factory but they have 104 keys. The changes I posted convert it to 104, and we get all keys working correctly.I might be wrong, as I often am.[
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