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 Post subject: Potentially stupid Windows question.
PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:26 am 
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Okay guys, so I have this Acer laptop. My problem is this: the " and @ keys are swapped from where they should be, ie: pressing shift+2 brings up " (when it should do @) and vice versa.

I can't fix it. I've Google'd repeatedly and only found answers that tell me to swap the keyboard layout from US to UK: NO DICE. It's already set to UK and no amount of fiddling with it has made any difference.

Help. Or, should I say, @help@.


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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:19 am 
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Hold up. Shift+2 is " in Commonwealth countries!?!? That's absurd.

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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:22 am 
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Hold up. Shift+2 is " in Commonwealth countries!?!? That's absurd.

Only on my wacky laptop.

(Read again.)


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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:35 am 
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spenno wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Hold up. Shift+2 is " in Commonwealth countries!?!? That's absurd.

Only on my wacky laptop.

(Read again.)

It sounded like your whacky configuration was assumed to be the standard US configuration.

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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
spenno wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Hold up. Shift+2 is " in Commonwealth countries!?!? That's absurd.

Only on my wacky laptop.

(Read again.)

It sounded like your whacky configuration was assumed to be the standard US configuration.

That's what I've been seemingly led to believe when I Google'd my problem - "toggle it to UK from US, that'll fix it!" - NOPE.

It's just...weird.


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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
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I just assumed keyboards in the southern hemisphere ran on the ytrewq system.

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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:02 pm 
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Guys, it's not doing it now.


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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
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spenno wrote:
Guys, it's not doing it now.

Perhaps you just had to reboot?

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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
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Rebar wrote:
spenno wrote:
Guys, it's not doing it now.

Perhaps you just had to reboot?

Sometimes we all need to reboot, Rebar.

Nah, it's not that. I've rebooted plenty of times.

You know how I said I was toggling it between US and UK and it wouldn't change? Well, this time I was doing it and it worked. I swear I've done it before, even today, with no success - but now this thing wants to play ball, so.

Is 11:30pm too late to eat a cupcake?


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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
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spenno wrote:
Rebar wrote:
spenno wrote:
Guys, it's not doing it now.

Perhaps you just had to reboot?

Sometimes we all need to reboot, Rebar.

Nah, it's not that. I've rebooted plenty of times.

You know how I said I was toggling it between US and UK and it wouldn't change? Well, this time I was doing it and it worked. I swear I've done it before, even today, with no success - but now this thing wants to play ball, so.

Is 11:30pm too late to eat a cupcake?

cupcakes are universal, my friend.

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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
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You know what?

I don't really feel like it.

I just want to eat it because it's there.


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 Post subject: Re: Potentially stupid Windows question.
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spenno wrote:
You know what?

I don't really feel like it.

I just want to eat it because it's there.

That's a slippery slope...

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