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daj

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Anyone else having a problem with the backslash key \ on a MacBook Pro?

Running WinXP SP2 with a keyboard and regional settings set to UK I get the #

A search of the forums suggests lots of problems were fixed a few releases back - I'm on beta 6

thanks
 
This is a problem that only affects users with a UK keyboard mapping.

I have the same issue. I have solved it by downloading the following app:

http://www.alexspeller.com/hostedfiles/backslasher.zip

Run this from inside your Parallels XP session - it will remap the key to the left of the Z key in XP to work as the backslash \ key. Now you can map to other Windows machines on your network easily!
 
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