Mike
Wed May 07 04:48:36 PDT 2008
<paoloricardo@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On May 7, 11:41 am, "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@remove_mvps.com>
> wrote:
>> <paolorica...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:75f0ae32-b6d4-4e77-b5b1-f25c18af8413@d19g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> >I have a HP Pavilion laptop and when I press certain keys I get a
>> > different response e.g. pressing '@' gives '"' and vice versa. In
>> > particular I cannot get the '|' (pipe) symbol, which is causing me
>> > grief using Linux.
>>
>> > I have the laptop set to English (United Kingdom), although I have
>> > tried English (United States) and English (Australia) (I bought the
>> > laptop in Australia) . Can anyone suggest a solution
>>
>> You have to set the KEYBOARD language..
>>
>>
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/765a7264-b593-445...
>>
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>
> Mike: thanks - changing to English (US) Keyboard layout solved the
> problem.
Way to go.. :-)
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