Changing keyboard layout

[nitrous9200]

I have a Motorola bluetooth keyboard with a UK layout, which is slightly different to the US layout that I'm used to. It's mostly the same, but a few of the keys, especially the symbols to the right of the letter rows, are all in different places and when I'm typing, I often hit the wrong keys.

Since I'm using the keyboard with a Windows PC, I wanted to know if there is a way to get the computer to interpret the keyboard as having a US layout, or at least type the character that I want (e.g. I want it to enter a ; whereas the same key on the UK keyboard is a [). Is there any way to do this? I thought maybe I could use Autohotkey but I'd rather not have to program every single button.

 

[Karstein]

You should just be able to change your keyboard settings to make it a US layout. Eg, shift+3 would give you # instead of £.

Start -> Region and Language -> Keyboards and Languages -> Change Keyboards. Then Add English (US) and make it default (or just remove English (UK)).

 

[nitrous9200]

The regional settings are all set to US, and shift+3 gives me #. But the problematic keys are just incorrectly labeled: next to the P, I have the keys `\; instead of []\. Maybe this can't be adjusted in software, I don't know, but hopefully I've explained it properly.

 

[Ben90]

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