Keyboard mapping errors

[John Gray]

This is on a fairly old Dell Inspiron 1300 running XP Pro, where, although the UK keyboard is loaded, there appears to be some effects from the US keyboard, such as " interchanged with @ (but that's not just the only problem). Assuming I can't fix this by changing to the US keyboard, rebooting, changing back to the UK keyboard and rebooting, can anyone suggest a keyboard mapping program which they have used successfully which might be able to help me out?

Would Clavier (for example) be able to remap actual keys, rather than assign hot-keys?

[Bigaldoc]

John, I don't think you can remap with Clavier. A long time ago, I used this program to "map" the Caps Lock on the keyboard to the Tab Key function because my ignorant finger kept hitting caps lock when I was aiming for the tab.

Again, I don't know if it will do what you need, in light of the British vs USA complication but it wouldn't hurt to give it a look.

MapKeyboard - Freeware keyboard remapper

[John Gray]

Thanks, Al. I had a quick look at it, but couldn't see how to assign key combinations, like Shift+2. Also, the UK layout of physical keys differs slightly from the US layout. I will have to investigate further.

It's really odd, because the standard UK keyboard driver ought to sort this out without requiring anything on top.

[HansV]

In Regedit, what is the value of the "1" entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload? If there is an entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes that correspnds to this, what is its value?

Same questions for HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload and HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes.

[John Gray]

Thanks, Hans. I'll have a look when next I can get at the laptop.

[John Gray]

I managed to play with the laptop this morning, and was surprised to see the keyboard map selection pop-up. So I changed to the UK keyboard, and deleted the US keyboard, and all appears well. Unusually unlike the usual problem...

[HansV]

That's a lot easier than meddling with the registry!