Keyboard layout during login (Windows XP)

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Daniel Larouche, Feb 1, 2010.

  1. Daniel Larouche

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    Hi, I have a strange problem, that I'm not sure is caused by Parallels Desktop.

    I'm using Parallels Desktop 5 (build 5.0.9310) for Mac under Snow Leopard. I have setup a French canadian keyboard that matches the mac layout for my Windows XP machine which is a QWERTY layout. However, whenever I logout of Windows, it returns me to the Administrator login page, I cannot enter my password properly, the keyboard layout is changed - To AZERTY I guess, but cannot tell for sure.

    So while trying to enter my password, the layout is AZERTY, but once I do, after the vm is completely booted, then it's back to QWERTY, which is what I want.

    Is this something that I can fix in Parallels?

    Thanks,
    Daniel Larouche
     
  2. Daniel Larouche

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    Found solution

    Hi, in case someone has the same problem, it turns out that this is not a parallels issue after all.

    The solution is to change the value in the following registry key in Windows XP:

    HKEY_USER\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload.

    Daniel
     

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