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Month: February 2003

windows XP keyboard mapping

Posted on by Rick Hurst

sometimes I think I don’t deserve a career in IT – I just spent a good half an hour completely stumped as to how to change the keyboard mapping from US to UK on a win XP box!

To do this, go to control panel ->regional and language options->languages->text services and input languages

obvious when you look at it, but could I find it?

archived comments

Thankyou I’ve just been struggling too.

Chris Parkinson 2007-03-12 20:29:53

Thank you. It’s not easy to find. I added English (Ireland) but had to remove the entry for US to get the correct mappings for @ and “.

Mick Ruddy 2007-05-09 22:19:24

Thanks, worked perfectly.

Carl Dennis 2008-01-18 16:02:16

Hi i am looking for the divide button on my laptop on a uk keyboard can you help ??

Robin 2009-07-25 00:43:00

Many thanks to you and to Mick Ruddy. I had tried adding the UK keyboard to my Dell previously, but thought I could switch between them – didn’t realize I had to delete the US keyboard before the UK one would work properly.

G Robert Thompson 2009-10-07 15:04:32

I rebuilt my PC a year ago and since then it thought it was US setting – despite the obvious regional settings pointing at the UK

The Key board was always mapped wrong so the @ sign was always at SHift-2

This info here fixed it – thats great – the simplest things make the world go round…

Thanks Dude

James 2009-10-17 11:01:19

troubleshooting section

Posted on by Rick Hurst

I always seem to find myself coming up against the same problems, fixing them then forgetting how I did it when I get the same problem. Hopefully by logging problems here it will help me remember, and help out other people at the same time

Mentor PCMCIA fast ethernet card drivers

Posted on by Rick Hurst

I installed windows XP today and could not get my mentor PCMCIA PCMLAN10/100 fast ethernet network card to work using downloaded drivers from the vendors website.

I searched around the web a bit and found loads of other people with the same problem. It turns out that there are different versions of this card, and what looks like the same card is different.

I eventually got it working by digging out the original diskette that came with the card and pointing XP at the w2k driver on that – now working fine (so far).

If you have found this via a search and are having the same problem, and your card is recognised by the machine as “PCMCIA Fast-Ethernet” then you need the original drivers, rather than the ones on the mentor site.

If you are looking for linux information for the same card – I have had this card working under linux too

wap interface for blogworks

Posted on by Rick Hurst

I’ve been reading about mobile blogging, and whilst I don’t have a fancy phone with pictures etc, it would be quite nice to have a way to make text postings. My phone (sony j5e) has ms mobile explorer – a wap and basic HTML browser, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to build a simplified HTML interface which works with blogworks.

Ideally I should learn more about the blogger API and have it speak to this rather than directly to the files – possibly making it more universal.