About this tag
Discussions about the US keyboard layout on WindowsForum.com cover issues with input methods, default keyboard settings, and conflicts with other layouts. Users report problems such as unexpected character output when switching between US and Japanese keyboards, the US keyboard overriding a Right Dvorak layout at boot, and strange behavior with the United States-International keyboard in Windows 7. Another user seeks to permanently select the US keyboard to avoid the French Canadian layout appearing. These threads focus on troubleshooting keyboard input, layout persistence, and multi-language support in Windows 7 and 8.
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    Windows 10 Japanese keyboard input

    Hi guys, I'm having trouble with inputting stuff in Japanese. I have a standard European/American keyboard and normally this means that whenever I press "s" and "a" I'd get "さ" (Japanese "sa"), but now for every button I press a character appears (e.g. if I press "s" the result is "と" (Japanese...
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    Windows 8 Right Dvorak keyboard

    I use the right dvorak keyboard because I have use of only my right hand. When Windows 8 boot up it boots up with the US keyboard even though I have set it to us only Right Dvorak. Is there a way I can make Right Dvorak keyboard the default?
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    Windows 7 Issues with United States-International Keyboard Input in Windows 7

    Hi. I have Win 7 installed on a laptop with a standard English (United States)-US keyboard. As I need to use other languages, I installed the English (United States) United States-International keyboard. Until recently it was working fine, but for the past week or so, some of the keys started...
    • NotImpressed
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    • ansi codes characters configuration english error input issues international keyboard language laptop reinstall repair settings support symbols technical issues typing us keyboard user experience windows 7
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 more than one occurance of documents library

    I have three accounts set up on my windows 7 machine: Sys_admin, Bil, and Myra. Sysadmin has sysadmin privileges, Bill and Myra do not. While i'm logged in as Bill, win7 seems to put some documents in sys_admin's documents library and some in my Bill documents library. Should I just remove...
    • HairBrain
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    • configuration document library document management file location french keyboard layout keyboard settings multi-user sysadmin privileges us keyboard user privileges windows 7 windows settings
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support