Just installed win 7 but,

[trt]

when I type an address example tomsmith at.com, the at comes out an " any idea why please?.

[ChuckFickens]

you've got the keyboard set to USA not UK

Goto the control panel > regional and language and set it to English (UK)

[trt]

I did that Chuck but its still the same. Do I have to restart comp for it to change?

[ChuckFickens]

sorry, I should have said go through all the tabs and change everything to UK and under the keyboard and languages tab > change keyboards make sure the default input is set to UK (you may have to add the UK keyboard first)

[rojash]

There's a bug In the Win7 installation, that means that if you set the correct locale details during installation, although they appear correctly when you check them, they don't always work correctly.
The solution is to set everything to US, then restart the machine, then change them all to your correct settings.

[trt]

Thanks rojash,
when you say set everything to US what exactly do you mean by everything?

[rojash]

I mean evrything, so that it looks like a default US installation:
Control Pane l/ Region and Language.
On the first tab, select "English United States", then click the Addition Settings button and ensure that everything on there matches US standards, then click OK.
On the Keyboards and languages tab, click Change Keyboards.
Ensure that both US and UK keyboards are installed, and that the default input language is "English United States"
Click OK, then OK
Restart the machine.

Repeat all the above, but ensuring that you set everything to the correct choices for UK.
Restart the machine.

To avoid accidentally switching to the US keyboard:
Go back in yet again
On keyboard and languages, click Change Keyboards
You should have already set the default to UK, so now highlight the US keyboard in the list and click "Remove"
Click OK, then OK