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December 9th, 2008 18:00
Keyboard language issue (XPS M1530)
Hi,
My keyboard suddently switched to "Canada-English" and i cant set it back to default "Canada-French"
The language bar doesnt show up on task bar (even if i have two language correctly installed) and changing the settings in "Regional and Language settings" in control panel doesnt seems to do anything...
Vista bug?
Specific to XPS M1530?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Mr._Pseudonym
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December 9th, 2008 21:00
:^/ We have multiple language support installed on our desktop, (My wife is Thai,) and we can switch between input systems by pressing the left alt key and shift key at the same time. An icon on the system tray changes to indicate which input system is active.
The Control Panel Regional and Language Settings icon (and Keyboard icon) only allow you to set which input system is default, or to add/remove different input systems, or to change the hot key for switching them, but not to switch which one you wish to use at the time.
;^) Soooo, give left-alt +shift a try and see how it works for you. Failing that, check the Control Panel setting again and look to see what the hot key is on your setup, and try that.
airspill
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December 10th, 2008 15:00
Hi,
I tried the left-alt + shift key combination without any success.
I also tried to change the key mapping to another combination (ex: ctrl-1, ctrl-2), with the same results.
It looks like anything related to the keyboard language isnt functionning properly... :(
Any ideas?
Thank you!
utmnoor
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April 6th, 2009 14:00
Hey airspill,
I have almost the same problem. I looked everywhere for my language bar and don't think it ever was on my taskbar since I bought the laptop (3 days ago). I've tried EVERYTHING including going to regedit and manually trying to get it to show up in my taskbar on startup. The "languages" option isn't even present in my toolbar's menu, but the ctfmon.exe file is present in my system32 folder. Have you found a solution to this problem yet? I would appreciate it if you can let me know, it's fairly important to me. Thanks a lot!
edagro
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April 16th, 2009 16:00
It may be too late for you guys - or maybe you''ve discovered the solution: Go to Control Panel > Regional & Language Options > Keyboard and Languages > Change Keyboards. At the top you'll see a tab for Language Bar. It's a devil to find, took me hours to discover this. Should be in the Dell windows Help & Support, but it's not.