keyboard has no pound sign:(

nicole1988

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hi just bought a compaq laptop online, from u.s, unfortunatly th keyboard has no pound sign, instead it has the $ sign. is there a way i could add the pound sign?. thanks for your help
 

matt3118

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Laptop keys easily come off on most units. On the one I'm typing on right now, the J key fell of yesterday because my cat scratched at it. Try pulling at it at angles or put a screw drive between the keys (I accept no blame if you break something). I would contact the seller or the manufacturer though. It is their fault they didn't give you a pound key. But then again, I'm not the most well informed person out there...
 

Archangel

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erm.. you buy a Laptop with a certain key layout, its not the manufacturers fault.. you could ofcourse look for a replacement keyboard, or when you reinstall windows, set the keyboard layout to english (UK), that should actually work i gues.. Maybe you can even change that setting without reinstalling windows, but i dont know how :eek: but if you can do that, you should have the Pound sign again ( true,.. it would look like the $ on the keyboard,. but in windows it should draw a pound sign instead :) )
 

apj101

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hi just bought a compaq laptop online, from u.s, unfortunatly th keyboard has no pound sign, instead it has the $ sign. is there a way i could add the pound sign?. thanks for your help
then what is above the number 3 and number 4?
 

Archangel

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4 = $ and 5 = % for me, ( the netherlands use the US layout as far as i know, and that is what i have :) )
 

nicole1988

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yeah thts the same 4 me i need to change it. coz im alwez havin tu copy and paste th pound sign of the web, which is annoyin!
 

pdc76

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Laptop keys easily come off on most units. On the one I'm typing on right now, the J key fell of yesterday because my cat scratched at it. Try pulling at it at angles or put a screw drive between the keys (I accept no blame if you break something). I would contact the seller or the manufacturer though. It is their fault they didn't give you a pound key. But then again, I'm not the most well informed person out there...

even if you change the key phisically, what is displayed on the screen when you push it stays the same.
 

bflat450

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Obviously if you change it physically... the plastic with the letters is just the casing... its programmed by its positioning... you would have to change it through your operating system.
 

nicole1988

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ive tried changin th keyboard settings/language setting to english(uk) but th pound sign stil not there... how would i change it through th operating system? thenks 4 your time agen
 

Kornowski

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Open up the keyboard settings (Start > Control Panel, double click on ‘Keyboard’)

Select the ‘Input Locales’ tab.

Check that the desired keyboard layout is shown in the list of ‘Input locales’ and that it is selected as the default input locale.

Hope it helps a litte...
 
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