Friday, August 22, 2008

Keyboard layout before and after logon screen are different

PROBLEM
Operating system is installed on a computer by deployment software. The default layout is AZERTY. The keyboard layout is OK in Windows after changing the layout at Control Panel / Regional Settings to US (QWERTY), but at the logon screen it is still AZERTY layout.

SOLUTION
- Click on Start / Run and type Regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Keyboard Layout / Preload
- Change the value of key 1 in 00000409

HKEY_USER / .DEFAULT / Keyboard Layout / Preload
- Change the value of key 1 in 00000409