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[stitchwhich]

I'm on my new computer, which is one and a half years old... yeah, I have difficulty breaking in a new computer. While I was so badly depressed I just didn't have the energy to face the confusion and frustration. Even now, I'm not sure if things are the way they 'should' be because the darned screen keeps trying to prompt me into switching to Chrome. And I've forgotten how to block pop ups. That is no problem though, as I can ask my husband when he wakes up.

I'll be asking him to help me configure Windows Office Pro 2016. When I tried it on my own it gave me a message about 64-bit being incompatable with 32 or 16 bit and said I'd have to delete some programs. For that, I'm calling in the expert.

And then I can ask him why my @ and " key functions are reversed. That is really going to mess up my typing if I have to adapt to a messed up keyboard. Maybe there is an easy fix. I hope so since the laptop is likely out of warrenty by now (I got it in late Nove of 2016.)

I've downloaded by favorite game program and loaded three games in it. It was nice to ty the game that I couldn't play on my old laptop (now desigated as "the Heraldry Laptop", which processed too slowly for the game to work.

That being written, it is time for me to get Facebook set up. I don't know what else I should set up since I'll be loading in Office Pro and I think it has a different internet handler, program, thingy. Maybe not - what do I know?

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[kareina]

There are easy ways to change which keyboard your computer thinks it has. Some of them are built in and managed through the control panel. I need a Swedish keyboard so I can easily type ä, ö, and å, so I just tell the computer that is what I have. I used to have a notebook I bought in the UK, and those have all kinds of weird positions for the various things that are above the number keys, so in those days I just told the computer that it was a US keyboard and ignored what was written on the keys.

However, it is possible to configure a custom keyboard if you want--ask google for "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator". This one is a godsend. The one problem with a Swedish keyboard is that many European countries use a comma the way the US uses a decimal point, and vice versa. So the number 10.000,00 is what we would type 10,000.00. This means that instead of having a decimal point on the number keypad there is a comma there, which is really annoying. Therefore I used that keyboard layout create to define my own keyboard which is based on the Swedish keyboard, but has a decimal point on the number pad, and my life is much happier. (one types a lot of numbers when one works as a scientist)

[stitchwhich]

I am feeling accomplished. I found the proper setting thingy and switched my language from UK English to US English International and now the upper case symbols are back the way they should be. I still haven't been able to install Office Pro 2016 but I have a husband who can do that for me when I get confused. :)

[kareina]

Yay for fixing the keyboard! ..and yay for a partner who will do IT duties when needed!