keyboard layout

If your high school Spanish teacher could see you now, painstakingly hunting through the keyboard to type an ñ or wrestling with an ü that mischievously refuses to appear, would they clap or cry? It’s a scene familiar to anyone who has ever dared to chat, write, or create in Spanish on a Windows...

Windows 11 just got a little more game-friendly. Microsoft has officially rolled out a new gamepad keyboard layout designed specifically for Xbox controller users. The update, now available in the Release Preview version (build 24H2 Build 26100.3613), rethinks the traditional touch keyboard...

Microsoft is stepping up its game—literally—with a redesigned gamepad keyboard layout for Windows 11 that promises to revolutionize on-screen typing. This innovative update is aimed squarely at gamers, streamers, and anyone who prefers the tactile familiarity of an Xbox controller over a...

Imagine being in the middle of a heated multiplayer session and suddenly needing to send a quick chat message—all without pausing your game to hunt down a physical keyboard. That’s the promise of Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update, which introduces an innovative gamepad keyboard layout...

Ever found yourself scratching your head over how to change the language of your Windows interface or install a new keyboard layout? Whether you’re a multilingual wizard, a frequent traveler, or just someone getting started with personalizing your Windows installation, Microsoft provides plenty...

Windows 11 enthusiasts eagerly anticipating enhanced gaming and accessibility features have hit a temporary setback. The much-anticipated gamepad keyboard layout, designed to streamline typing using an Xbox controller on PC via the on-screen keyboard, has been placed on hold. This development...

Is there a document that tells what keys map to the Spanish language characters when the Spanish language keyboard has been enabled in W11?

Hi all Since years, since Windows 10, i experience a crazy behaviour with the windows language setting for the keyboard. 1. I install Windows 11 from scratch and select as Language "German". I select as keyboard "Switzerland (German)". 2. After the installation i have two keyboard layouts...

Hi! I’m not good with computers and I really need help. My PC (Microsoft surface book) asks a bitlocker key, but I don’t remember I ever made that. I tried with the key found on my Microsoft account but it doesn’t work. Also, the ID key in my account and the ID key in the computer are...

Hi, I have a new laptop, but instead of a ctrl key next to the alt button, I have this second "|\" key, but I really want that to be a ctrl key. Switching out the physical key I know isn't such a big deal if I get my hands on the same thing, but is it possible to tell all my software to pretend...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21301 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. This build is being offered to ALL Insiders in the Dev Channel. All Insiders in the Dev Channel will now receive the same build going forward. What’s new...

Win 10 v1902(2) updated ok this morning and snip shortcut "Win logo + shift + S" not working. Gives rapid flashing between 2 yellow pop ups, keyboards Eng UK and Eng US. I only have Eng UK in preferred language. Also the delivery of key stroke to printed letter is wrong with @ should be ", #...

Dear sirs, I bought a laptop in the USA with Windows 10 installed, and brought it back home in Brazil. I need accents, and had to change my keyboard to Brazilian ABNT 2. Now I have accents, but I could not get one symbol back, the question mark (?). Is there a way to assign it to a less used...

I can't find the @ key on my new ASUS pc. It's spanish but with english language. Any help very welcome.

Assume I have a bootable USB flash drive with Win10 and additiional other tools on it.. Booting it works fine. Now immediately after booting from this USB flash drive I want to AUTOMATICALLY patch/enter some customized keys resp. values into the Registry. As an example think of switching to...

I'll present first the issue, then the back story and some of my findings. The issue is that I recently upgraded to Windows 10, for many reasons I wanted a fresh start with my PC and wanted to factory reset it. To do this I used the software which came with Windows 10. The problem being, the...

Hi there, I need the posibillity to choose multible keyboard layouts, like qwerz/qwerty, on the loginscreen, because we have user with differend layouts on her PCs. I've two languages installed an the switch from german to eng works fine on the desktop, but not an login. Is there a solution...

So, I have literally no idea where to ask this. I figured a Windows forum would be a good place to start. I have a personal project of mine that, among other things, consists of creating an alphabet. But this alphabet has to be "typable" in the Windows environment. Do you know the language bar...

So I would really, dearly, sincerely like to know if there isn't an easier, more intuitive way to access special characters than the ludicrously arcane alt+0xxx combinations Microsoft invites you to accept (did they have robot users in mind when they decided that was a good design decision?)...

Hello. I'm currently using Windows 8.1. I bought my laptop from Japan so I had to change the language of the system. I was able to change the welcome screen, toolbar, regional, keyboard layout, and other language-related stuff. However, when I go to the welcome screen, the Desktop tab still...