i have just bought a used laptop, the chap who i got it from said it has an american key board the keysare nowto get @on you use the shift key and to delete you use backshift, this does work but is he telling me a load of *&^%^&^^&&^ rubbish, can anyone tell me if its true. cheers and thanks.yukka.
american keyboards have a few of the keys indifferent places, the @ sign will be shift and 2 (with the " being where the @ sign would be on a UK keyboard)
backspace and delete are the same for both UK and USA
You won't have a £ symbol
You can change the keyboard layout in windows to the UK layout, then all the keys will be in the correct places for a UK keyboard, but those keys will be labeled incorrectly.
Jason - you have American settings on your computer. Go into control panel --- Regional and Language options and you can change them in there to English (UK).