Can't use UK keyboard layout at login

[Chris]

Hi,

I'm deploying Win2k SP4 machines from a RIS server
including the UK regional settings. A problem came to
light because we enforce the strong password policy GPO.
Some users use the '@' symbol in their passwords, but when
they type it in at the login screen, they get the US
keyboard layout & so actually type '"'!

I can't seem to find a way to enforce the UK keyboard
layout at the login screen, even if I make UK default &
delete US layout completely. Here's the section of my
riprep.sif file from the RIPrep image folder which
includes the UK keyboard layout:

[RegionalSettings]
Language=00000809
LanguageGroup=1
InputLocale=00000809

and it's the same in the CD-based image ristndrd.sif file
too. Machines built from this end up with both the UK & US
layouts, defaulting to the UK layout. I can't seem to
exclude the US layout in the RIPrep build.

Any ideas?

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Hi

You need the following lines:

[Unattended]
KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom"

Also, if you haven't already got this, you'll want it too.

[GUIUnattended]
TimeZone=85

If you want to fiddle with machines you've already deployed, try importing
this registry file on a test machine.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000809"

Hope this helps

Oli

 

[Chris]

Thanks for the reply, Oli. Found it was down to an
individual RIPrep image not installing the correct layout,
so all machines of that type ended up with the problem.
Not really sure why, because I tried making changes to
the .sif file as you suggested, but the US keyboard was
still the default at logon. Ended up re-imaging for that
type of machine.

The hint with the registry will be useful, though as I
should be able to mop up machines that have already used
the old image.

Cheers - Chris.

-----Original Message-----
Hi

You need the following lines:

[Unattended]
KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom"

Also, if you haven't already got this, you'll want it too.

[GUIUnattended]
TimeZone=85

If you want to fiddle with machines you've already deployed, try importing
this registry file on a test machine.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000809"

Hope this helps

Oli

Hi,

I'm deploying Win2k SP4 machines from a RIS server
including the UK regional settings. A problem came to
light because we enforce the strong password policy GPO.
Some users use the '@' symbol in their passwords, but when
they type it in at the login screen, they get the US
keyboard layout & so actually type '"'!

I can't seem to find a way to enforce the UK keyboard
layout at the login screen, even if I make UK default &
delete US layout completely. Here's the section of my
riprep.sif file from the RIPrep image folder which
includes the UK keyboard layout:

[RegionalSettings]
Language=00000809
LanguageGroup=1
InputLocale=00000809

and it's the same in the CD-based image ristndrd.sif file
too. Machines built from this end up with both the UK & US
layouts, defaulting to the UK layout. I can't seem to
exclude the US layout in the RIPrep build.

Any ideas?

.