keyboard layout

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...

Hello, Changing of keyboard layout in my system is Alt-Shift. When you're working in Word, other office applications or browse somewhere - you often shift from 1 language to another. In case you accidentally did not press alt-shift properly and pressed only alt - your cursor will jump to the...

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I've got a unique problem that I've not seen before. I'm using IE10 (Windows 8). The forward slash on some tabs on both Metro and IE Desktop look like this by hitting that particular key alone - it appears as follows \ Now when I hit the Shift key, it appears as follows | I can do this - c:\...

I defined one input keyboard (Spanish LatinAmerican) which is not English. Though I would like to keep the option to use as an exception the English keyboard. However sometimes the computer changes the input keyboard into the English one. And more rarely it changes to another keyboard...

hello I have a problem with my keyboard of my laptop: when I want to type an é there apears this: 'e also when I want to type è there apears this: `e when I want to type ê there apears this: ^e the accents appear on the screen imediately after I pouched the button. please help me to solve this...