BALIX
10th May 2005, 08:48
Here's a bit of a poser:
My keyboard sometimes forgets it is in the UK. It is a standard MS UK keyboard but occasionally it will show a # when I've typed in a £. Other symbols will also be wrong - the @ and " will transpose for example. I get the impression that the keyboard will switch over to American settings and then switch back again for no apparent reason.
Of course it might not be the keyboard, it might be the PC. But I've gone into the Control Panel and checked the regional settings which remain on the standard UK default.
The latest example was in a Word doccument, though I've just opened up another Word doccument and the symbols are behaving normally. But I've also had the problem in the body of an e mail and even when I've been typing a message in Pprune.
Any ideas?
My keyboard sometimes forgets it is in the UK. It is a standard MS UK keyboard but occasionally it will show a # when I've typed in a £. Other symbols will also be wrong - the @ and " will transpose for example. I get the impression that the keyboard will switch over to American settings and then switch back again for no apparent reason.
Of course it might not be the keyboard, it might be the PC. But I've gone into the Control Panel and checked the regional settings which remain on the standard UK default.
The latest example was in a Word doccument, though I've just opened up another Word doccument and the symbols are behaving normally. But I've also had the problem in the body of an e mail and even when I've been typing a message in Pprune.
Any ideas?