Cannot get @ or " the right way round

DrewP · Mar 19, 2010

This is driving me nuts. I have Parallels 5/WinXP/Snow Leopard. Every time I type the @ symbol I get quotes (") instead. I have made sure the keyboard is United Kingdom and even deleted the US keyboard. I have the same set up at home running Parallels 5 on a MacPro, and I don't have this problem EXCEPT on my MacBook Pro where I am running VMWare.

I have hunted everywhere for a solution and I know it's a box I need to check or uncheck so if anyone knows which setting to change I would be very grateful!

Thanks

Drew

limbic · Mar 22, 2010

I have exactly the same problem. Changing the keyboard layout to UK did not help.

DrewP · Mar 24, 2010

So, you and I appear to be the only people in the world with this problem. Sigh ...

I-che · Mar 24, 2010

Hi DrewP,
please try to apply http://kb.parallels.com/en/5965

DrewP · Mar 25, 2010

Fantastic! Many thanks. I will try this when I get home.

Much appreciated

Drew

Tony Linde · Apr 4, 2010

The KB approach did not work for me (Macbook Air, Win 7 guest OS): the setup.exe does not run and installing the keyboard driver directly fails to add it to the selectable list of keyboards.

drewprovan · Apr 5, 2010

It worked for me. Did you do the Leopard disk reinstall thing - tools etc? I now have the keys the right way round!

Hallelujah!

Tony Linde · Apr 7, 2010

I got it to work but only by reinstalling the OS. I did this the manual way rather than letting Parallels handle the whole installation. That way I could install Boot Camp 3.0 from the SL disk straight after the installation, before installing the Tools. Then I upgraded to Boot Camp 3.1.

It appears that the Tools installation puts something on the VM that stops the installation of Boot Camp from the SL disk.

All working ok now, anyway. As you say, Hallelujah!

t.