Keyboard problem
 

Last week put in a new HDD and loaded Win XP Pro; all is fine except that the keyboard has picked up a glitch, the # symbol now appears when the UK Pound key is pressed and the @ symbol appears when the quote mark key is pressed (Upper case fig 2 key). There are a few other transpositions but it would be overly confusing to try and explain them. Running UK English as language setting BTW.

Any ideas?

you have the KB on the USA setting. change it to UK.

Thanks Ormus, I suspected a foreign keyboard set up, though I can't figure how to change it, the Kboard properties says its English UK and the regional props are also English UK. Do I need to reinstall XP to get the options page again? (Which I must have blithely paged through I suppose). Not too bothered if I have to but there must be a quicker option?

Have you gone in via Settings>Control Panel>Keyboard?

Have you also checked to see what 'Regional Settings' says?

I had a similar problem a year or so ago, as related here.

It only took a minute or so to fix though and its on a laptop running XP Home.