Windows Forum

Ask something
Question Locked

Vista Keyboard for DOS Programs

0 helpful
4 replies

by steveadkins

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

When entering quote marks or @ keys in, for example, DOS edit, even though country is set to United Kingdom, the system reverses the keys.
KEYBUK does not work in Vista !

Has anyone the answer ?

04.07.07 I now have the answer, thanks to microsoft. Since no one on the forum replied I must assume that no one knew the answer or no one took me seriously.

KEYBUK has been replaced with KB16UK !!

It's as simple as that.

Just add the following line to autoexec.nt:
LH KB16 UK,,%/SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\KEYBOARD.SYS

If this has proved useful to anyone, please let me know.

4 replies

by cchristof

Vista refuses to let me update the file, or change security settings to allow the change to be accepted.

How did you do it? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

by abacrotto

Christ:
I think you need to work with Administrative privileges. That is your problem I guess. To do that you need to right clic the DOS icon with shift key pressed. Then the OS shows the list of possible actions. One of them should be "Start as Administrator". Click that and wait for the UAC window to display. Then click next. Then you have a DOS interface with Administrator privileges. You only need to go to \Windows\System32 (I guess there is your OS installed) and type:

NOTEPAD AUTOEXEC.NT

That's all.
I hope it can help you.
Regards.
Ariel.

by abacrotto

Steve. I was looking for a solution to this issue and in google I found a reference to your article. I use it changing the configuration to match my keyboard configuration (I live in Argentina, so it is Latin American Keyboard) and it worked flawless. I can add something. There is a (/) that is not supposed to be there in your command:
You wrote:
LH KB16 UK,,%/SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\KEYBOARD.SYS
Instead, it should be written:
LH KB16 UK,,%SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\KEYBOARD.SYS

You can note the lack of (/) in between the first % and the S of SYSTEMROOT.

Regards.
Ariel.

This discussion is closed to new replies.