Keyboard problem

[Luca]

Hi,

When I'm in the loggin window and I try to enter my
username and password, the letters that I type on my
keyboard are not the same as those written on the screen.
For example the letters a and q are reversed... When I
enter with an account that does not have a password and
type someting on notepad my keyboard is ok (ie the
letters that I type are the ones that appear on the
screen) Can someone tell me what I need to change to fix
this issue? Thanks for your help.

[Rob Schneider]

Luca wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I'm in the loggin window and I try to enter my
> username and password, the letters that I type on my
> keyboard are not the same as those written on the screen.
> For example the letters a and q are reversed... When I
> enter with an account that does not have a password and
> type someting on notepad my keyboard is ok (ie the
> letters that I type are the ones that appear on the
> screen) Can someone tell me what I need to change to fix
> this issue? Thanks for your help.

It probably is that the keyboard you actually have is different than
keyboard that XP has been told. For example, you have a French
keyboard, and XP think's it's English, or some other language combination.

Check Control Panel, Regional and Language Settings, Tab: Languages,
Button: Details.

[Nada Alwarid [MSFT]]

sounds like your regional settings for that account are set to a language
other than English, looks like French.

you have two options:
- press alt + shift, to shift between english and french, then type your
password in
- type your password in the user name space (so you can see what the
characters are, since you're not familiar with the layout of a french
keyboard) and then just copy/paste it into the passowrd field

after you've logged in, and if you want to revert your regional settings
back to English, go to Start | Control Panel | Regional and Language
Options, and make your settings there..

hope that helps!
nada

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"Luca" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> When I'm in the loggin window and I try to enter my
> username and password, the letters that I type on my
> keyboard are not the same as those written on the screen.
> For example the letters a and q are reversed... When I
> enter with an account that does not have a password and
> type someting on notepad my keyboard is ok (ie the
> letters that I type are the ones that appear on the
> screen) Can someone tell me what I need to change to fix
> this issue? Thanks for your help.