Keyboard defaults to US setting on new set up

[Guest]

I have just upgraded my desktop to Windows XP Professional from Win 2000 Pro.
I did a full format of the disk and a clean install. All went smoothly,
except for one thing.

I am based in the UK. I have, of course, a UK Microsoft keyboard. I set all
the regional setting to UK, GMT etc. But, my keyboard acts as if it is in the
US, i.e. the Pound key gives me a hash, the @ key gives me ' and vice versa.
I have re-checked the regional settings and they all seem fine. I do seem to
remember as I was doing the install, though I cannot be sure, that one of the
screens had a refenece to this being a US machine, but I didn't catch it in
time. Surely, I don't have to do another install to fix this do I?

Can anyone help, please? I really miss the Pound sign, in particular.

Many thanks in advance.

GeoffreyG

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Make sure that all menus & submenus are set to 'English (United Kingdom)' on
all three tabs under Regional and Language Options.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Will. Dead simple, when you know how! By the way, Win 2000 is the
1920's compared to 21st century XP.

Regards

GeoffreyG

 

[Will Denny]

You're welcome - glad to help. Some of the submenus are sometimes missed in
Regional and Language Options. I agree with you on XP.