Hello...
Can I ask about setting up the Japanese Keyboard layout.
The laptop is a Japanese Keyboard but it has an English OS with Windows
Vista Home Premium version. Though, the keyboard settings that is set on
Device Manager is already Japanese 106/109 keys. Both English and Japanese
Keyboard with IME was already configured and installed/added on 'Text
Services and Input Languages'.

The problem is, the Japanese Keyboard Layout was not functioning well. I
tried to check other keys but still it was appeared as what on an English
Layout and not from Japanese Layout, i.e. is '@'. In English, it will just
need when you press Shift+2, but for Japanese, it will jsut as usual type
besides letter 'P'.



Hopefully, someone can help with this problem.

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards.
Pinoy_Shinshi

I have the same problem. When I had Windows XP and IME, it worked fine.
This keyboard came with Compaq Prisario with Vista Home Premuim. It shows
nothing when I hit shift+~ and shift+). And when I hit ( , it shows ) on the
screen. When I hit : , it shows +. These are just a few examples of this
problem. I wonder this is a keyboad problem and I should exchange at a
Circuit City, or IME has changed the layout with Vista? On-screen keyboard
also shows the layout with altered position as above. When I change the
language input to English, everything is normal.

I hope someone can respond with a good solution to this problem.

Komatta

"pinoy_shinshi" wrote:

> Hello...
> Can I ask about setting up the Japanese Keyboard layout.
> The laptop is a Japanese Keyboard but it has an English OS with Windows
> Vista Home Premium version. Though, the keyboard settings that is set on
> Device Manager is already Japanese 106/109 keys. Both English and Japanese
> Keyboard with IME was already configured and installed/added on 'Text
> Services and Input Languages'.
>
> The problem is, the Japanese Keyboard Layout was not functioning well. I
> tried to check other keys but still it was appeared as what on an English
> Layout and not from Japanese Layout, i.e. is '@'. In English, it will just
> need when you press Shift+2, but for Japanese, it will jsut as usual type
> besides letter 'P'.
>
> Hopefully, someone can help with this problem.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards.
> Pinoy_Shinshi

I've looked all over for a solution for this problem. I am also using Vista
Premium and can find no way to use a Japanese Keyboard Layout. I am a student
over here in Japan and have to regularly switch between Japanese and English
to study. I have an English OS but want to use my Japanese Keyboard for
typing. This topic still hasn't found a solution. Has anyone got an answer
for this?

"Komatta" wrote:

> I have the same problem. When I had Windows XP and IME, it worked fine.
> This keyboard came with Compaq Prisario with Vista Home Premuim. It shows
> nothing when I hit shift+~ and shift+). And when I hit ( , it shows ) on the
> screen. When I hit : , it shows +. These are just a few examples of this
> problem. I wonder this is a keyboad problem and I should exchange at a
> Circuit City, or IME has changed the layout with Vista? On-screen keyboard
> also shows the layout with altered position as above. When I change the
> language input to English, everything is normal.
>
> I hope someone can respond with a good solution to this problem.
>
> Komatta
>
> "pinoy_shinshi" wrote:
>
> > Hello...
> > Can I ask about setting up the Japanese Keyboard layout.
> > The laptop is a Japanese Keyboard but it has an English OS with Windows
> > Vista Home Premium version. Though, the keyboard settings that is set on
> > Device Manager is already Japanese 106/109 keys. Both English and Japanese
> > Keyboard with IME was already configured and installed/added on 'Text
> > Services and Input Languages'.
> >
> > The problem is, the Japanese Keyboard Layout was not functioning well. I
> > tried to check other keys but still it was appeared as what on an English
> > Layout and not from Japanese Layout, i.e. is '@'. In English, it will just
> > need when you press Shift+2, but for Japanese, it will jsut as usual type
> > besides letter 'P'.
> >
> > Hopefully, someone can help with this problem.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Best regards.
> > Pinoy_Shinshi

I believe I found a solution. I did a bit of research and it seems you have
to do quite a bit of work to get this working.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927824 is the help file I looked at. You have
to actually go into the registry and trick windows into thinking you have a
Japanese 106 keyboard. The process took about 10 minutes and has been working
on my computer for a couple of days now. Everything works just fine. A little
ghetto to make it work but it works.

"ParaFish" wrote:

> I've looked all over for a solution for this problem. I am also using Vista
> Premium and can find no way to use a Japanese Keyboard Layout. I am a student
> over here in Japan and have to regularly switch between Japanese and English
> to study. I have an English OS but want to use my Japanese Keyboard for
> typing. This topic still hasn't found a solution. Has anyone got an answer
> for this?
>
> "Komatta" wrote:
>
> > I have the same problem. When I had Windows XP and IME, it worked fine.
> > This keyboard came with Compaq Prisario with Vista Home Premuim. It shows
> > nothing when I hit shift+~ and shift+). And when I hit ( , it shows ) on the
> > screen. When I hit : , it shows +. These are just a few examples of this
> > problem. I wonder this is a keyboad problem and I should exchange at a
> > Circuit City, or IME has changed the layout with Vista? On-screen keyboard
> > also shows the layout with altered position as above. When I change the
> > language input to English, everything is normal.
> >
> > I hope someone can respond with a good solution to this problem.
> >
> > Komatta
> >
> > "pinoy_shinshi" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello...
> > > Can I ask about setting up the Japanese Keyboard layout.
> > > The laptop is a Japanese Keyboard but it has an English OS with Windows
> > > Vista Home Premium version. Though, the keyboard settings that is set on
> > > Device Manager is already Japanese 106/109 keys. Both English and Japanese
> > > Keyboard with IME was already configured and installed/added on 'Text
> > > Services and Input Languages'.
> > >
> > > The problem is, the Japanese Keyboard Layout was not functioning well. I
> > > tried to check other keys but still it was appeared as what on an English
> > > Layout and not from Japanese Layout, i.e. is '@'. In English, it will just
> > > need when you press Shift+2, but for Japanese, it will jsut as usual type
> > > besides letter 'P'.
> > >
> > > Hopefully, someone can help with this problem.
> > >
> > > Many thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Best regards.
> > > Pinoy_Shinshi