Damn you to hell QWERTZ keyboard!!

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What is really quite fun is writing in Greek on a German Keyboard.

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noob

hahaha---but seriously I can understand. Although I once say a Belgian keyboard, new level of bizzare.

As for the qwertz bberry--wow, the concept crossed my mind a few times, but never actually thought about it in detail, would be fun to see.

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As we know, the UK keyboard layout is the best and the 'one true keyboard layout'.

At work, I have a Swiss Germany keyb but have it mapped to a UK layout. learning a new keyboard layout is pointless IMO. I know people who swap between the swiss german keyboards at work and then go to the UK layout at home - they are forever getting typos on both.

Pick one and stick to it. And pick the UK one, it's the best!

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Actually US is better. I have a UK one at work and the placement of the backslash/pipe key next to the z key is bloody weird and also takes away from having a nice big shift key. And wtf is that upper symbol on the key next to the 1 key. Bizarre.

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Type your password in Notepad and save the txt file on your desktop. When you need to log into your Work drive, open the txt file and clip 'n' paste the offending password into the password field. Simples

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some peeps do have probs, wow!

swiss keyboard...refusing on cleaning...funny.

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Do people have to be losing limbs before they're allowed to post in complaints corner? What about those who only lose a finger - will they get laughed at by acrotomophiles for being trivial?

I think moaning about a keyboard layout is perfectly acceptable. I had grief when working in Germany a couple of years ago. I was using my UK laptop (UK keyboard) and remote desktop'ing into a server which was expecting a German keyboard. I ended up cutting and pasting slashes in order to get my commands to work properly.

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Nah, you shouldn't really need to complain about that either

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Thanks for the interesting solutions to my problem. I went to the IT Crowd and sheepishly asked them if I could change my password. First they asked me, "Have you tried turning it off and switching it back on again?", I kid, I kid.

But on a more serious note, they said no, and that being a Fed. Dept they had to choose a complex password, and so forth. So I'm debating copying my password to notepad and carrying that around, that certainly helps with their security issue...

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no, all fine! if its a prob and worth a complaint....feel free!

my solution would be asking IT if they have or (if its so hard needed) buying myself on my expense the bloody american/english/german keyboard. case closed.

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So wrong, where do I begin? I guess you don't know any better having come from North America.

UK keyboard as God intended:

US abomination:

can you even type characters such as £, ¬ and ¦ on a US keyboard?

note the superior positioning of the # | \ @ ' " keys.

EDIT: you don't even have an alt-gr key??

thinking about this, i might remap some german letters to alt-gr combinations e.g. ë

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Boy am I curious. Your IT folks seem to be much more creative than mine... in a twisted discrimination type of way. So what was it, give us some hints...

Iri$hR3dheäd

$rilänkän

$wäziland2010

1ndiän$ikh

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Dude, as I said, wtf is the funny symbol (the one following your pound sterling). And any logical person would put the " above the '.

Now you're just being British for British sake.

Large shift key on left is important for gaming too.

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the UK left shift is perfectly big enough when you have the right skill and technique and that symbol, sir, is known as a comma!

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Another help if you are still having problems (OK not useful for logging in) is to do Start -> Programs -> Accessibility -> On Screen Keyboard.

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that's the not the only thing you British men say that about

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I used a Swiss kb at work and a US kb at home and it drove me crazy. I stumbled with both of them for months.

My capability with the Swiss kb eventually rose to a dodgy level and my capability with the US kb fell quite a bit.

I finally achieved full competence on the Swiss kb when I dropped the US layout entirely.

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ALT-9,2

You could learn the ASCII codes for all characters, that's fun

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"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

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I simply have Alt + Shift preprogrammed in my left hand to switch from one lay out to the other, as typing in german without all the üöä made some german friends complain. now i master both paralel

next, working on a desk of a colleague doesn't became frustrating anymore either.

The only thing is that they always come after me that i have changed their settings and if i PLEASE could put it back to normal

I don't even notice it anymore that i switch