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paoloricardo@gmail.com - 06 May 2008 23:06 GMT

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

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Mike Hall - MVP - 07 May 2008 02:41 GMT

>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
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> 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-b593-4458-90cf-0d07
13b5dfe61033.mspx

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paoloricardo@gmail.com - 07 May 2008 05:35 GMT

On May 7, 11:41 am, "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@remove_mvps.com>
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> <paolorica...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Mike: thanks - changing to English (US) Keyboard layout solved the
problem.

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Mike Hall - MVP - 07 May 2008 12:48 GMT

> On May 7, 11:41 am, "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@remove_mvps.com>
> wrote:
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> Mike: thanks - changing to English (US) Keyboard layout solved the
> problem.

Way to go.. :-)

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