Setting the computer keyboard language ( Win. Vista & 7 )

Setting the computer keyboard language and other regional settings

• Click on the Start button and from within the Start Menu click on the Control Panel button.  The Control Panel will be displayed.  Within the Clock, Language and Region section, click on the Change display language link

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• The Region and Languages Options window will be displayed.

• Click on the Formats tab to see the current default setting.   

  If you ever wanted to change these, you would click on the down arrow in the Current format section and select the required option, as illustrated below. 

• Select the Location tab to set your current location, as illustrated, 

• Select the Keyboards and Language Options tab.  Click on the Change keyboards button.  You can use the dialog box that is displayed to set the default input language. 

• If you click on the Add button you will see a list of available languages.

 NOTE: Do not actually change any settings.  Remember how you would change these setting if you ever wanted to. 

• Close all open Control Panel windows.