Thanks for the suggestion. I've changed everything I can find, but it hasn't solved the problem, I'm afraid. Fortunately it's not a great inconvenience. Cheers, Robyn On Sun Jul 27 13:47 , "n.east" sent: >Go to Start>Control Panel>Regional and Language Options>Languages and then click the "Details" button. You will then see the options you can change, add or delete. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: waymouth@ihug.com.au >> Sent: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:22:25 +0800 >> To: gen-comp-tips@rootsweb.com, w_longmore@yahoo.com >> Subject: Re: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] @ & ' >> >> Apologies if you're getting essentially this reply twice, but my first >> attempt >> seems to have vanished into the ether. >> >> I recently took my new Asus Eee (mini laptop) from Australia to England. >> Over >> there a friend arranged to have the operating system changed from Linux >> to MS XP. >> From that point on my keys responded differently. It seems that in >> England, >> the @ is two keys to the right of L and " is upper case 2. The hatch key >> (upper >> case 3) comes out as a pound symbol - a bit redundant here is Oz. >> >> All the English computers I used had this setout. I was quite surprised, >> as I >> expected UK and Oz would be the same. We use UK spelling after all. >> >> I haven't worked out how to fix it yet, but I assume it's a software >> setting >> somewhere. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Robyn >> Back in Oz with a Pommie computer >> >> On Sat Jul 26 19:28 , William Longmore sent: >> >> >Hi folks, can some kind soul help a computer Iliterate pensioner. I have >> a new >> computer + keyboard and the @ is where the " should be and the " is where >> the @ >> should be. How do I remedy this? Thanks in advance. >>> >> >Talk to you soon >>> >>> BILL >>> >>> >>> __________________________________________________________ >> >Not happy with your email address?. >> >Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available >> now at >> Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html >>> >> >-------------------------------------- >> >Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at >> gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com >> >------------------------------- >> >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> -------------------------------------- >> Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at >> gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >)