Keyboard keys changed

When I hold SHIFT and press 2, I get the "symbol, however when I hold shift and press on I get the @."
So two keys seem to have been put into tension autour, anyway I can fix this?
And Yes, it happens in all applications.

It sounds as if you should be fixed for US keyboard but are actually set to the United Kingdom. The important thing here is that this is not about where you live, it's the physical keyboard layout. The US keyboard is different in England in a few small areas that you discovered. Examples...

  1. On a UK keyboard 2 and "are on the same key, on the U.S. keyboard, it is 2 and @"
  2. On a UK keyboard than 3 and £ are on the same key, on the U.S. keyboard is 3 and #.

.. There's also other differences, but the above will help you determine what layout you have. For more details, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout.

So if you are in the United Kingdom, but have a U.S. keyboard, you must tell Windows that you have a keyboard on the keyboard not a UK US.

Click Start, click Control Panel, click on "Date, time, language and Regional Options", "Regional and Language Options". Or click Start, click Run, type intl.cpl, and press ENTER.

Click the "Languages" tab, then click on the "Détails" button... »

Select the keyboard layout suitable for your keyboard from the default input language drop-down list box and click OK, then click OK again.

Tricky

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