Using UK keybord for special characters

[Robert S]

I am an Australian resident and am planning to go to the UK and Europe for a
few weeks. A number of my passwords for email and remote access use special
characters (eg. !#^%& etc). When I try to use these on a UK keyboard some
of them are not there - I get a pound symbol etc.

Is there some way that I can use these symbols (on an unmodified Windows
system eg. web cafe) in the UK/Europe without changingy my passwords?

 

[Mike Williams]

I am an Australian resident and am planning to go to the UK and Europe for a
few weeks. A number of my passwords for email and remote access use special
characters (eg. !#^%& etc). When I try to use these on a UK keyboard some
of them are not there - I get a pound symbol etc.

Is there some way that I can use these symbols (on an unmodified Windows
system eg. web cafe) in the UK/Europe without changingy my passwords?

The symbols are available, albeit in different places on the keyboard.
See http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.mspx for
interactive demos (IE required).

Honestly, I would actually recommend changing the passwords because
you're going to have worse problems on the continent. I've been
travelling around Europe and noting that people using these characters
are having awful problems on shared PCs with the variety of keyboard
layouts available, and with keyboard layouts missing.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I am an Australian resident and am planning to go to the UK and Europe for a
few weeks. A number of my passwords for email and remote access use special
characters (eg. !#^%& etc). When I try to use these on a UK keyboard some
of them are not there - I get a pound symbol etc.

Is there some way that I can use these symbols (on an unmodified Windows
system eg. web cafe) in the UK/Europe without changingy my passwords?

You may have to memorise their numerical equivalents
as shown in charmap.exe:
!=021
#=023
^=094
Changing your passwords might be a simpler option.