I am running NT4 on a Dell notebook with NT 4 Server installed. The notebook has a French keyboard with an AZERTY layout. In the control panel I changed the regional setting and input locals to French. When I start the system and want to login the keyboard is still QWERTY. When I login and start using ths system the mapping is fine. DOes anybody have an idea what this can be ? Jeroen

Getting exactly the same Pb before here is the answer: How do I configure the default keyboard layout during login? A. You can change the keyboard layout using the keyboard control panel applet (start - settings - control panel - keyboard - Input Locales) however this does not affect the layout used during logon (which is by default English (United States)). To change this perform the following: Start the registry editor (regedit.exe) Move to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload Double click on 1 and change the number to your local layout (you could get this by looking at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload1). Click OK You may also change HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\Locale to this value however it is not mandatory to do so. Close the registry editor Logoff and then on again Make sure you select a country code that has been installed via the control panel or your system will not boot. A table of the codes to the countries is given below: 00000402 Bulgarian 0000041a Croatian 00000405 Czech 00000406 Danish 00000413 Dutch (Standard) 00000813 Dutch (Belgian) 00000409 English (United States) 00000809 English (United Kingdom) 00001009 English (Canadian) 00001409 English (New Zealand) 00000c09 English (Australian) 0000040b Finnish 0000040c French (Standard) 0000080c French (Belgian) 0000100c French (Swiss) 00000c0c French (Canadian) 00000407 German (Standard) 00000807 German (Swiss) 00000c07 German (Austrian) 00000408 Greek 0000040e Hungarian 0000040f Icelandic 00001809 English (Irish) 00000410 Italian (Standard) 00000810 Italian (Swiss) 00000414 Norwegian (Bokmal) 00000814 Norwegian (Nynorsk) 00000415 Polish 00000816 Portuguese (Standard) 00000416 Portuguese (Brazilian) 00000418 Romanian 00000419 Russian 0000041b Slovak 00000424 Slovenian 0000080a Spanish (Mexican) 0000040a Spanish (Traditional Sort) 00000c0a Spanish (Modern Sort) 0000041d Swedish 0000041f Turkish These can also be seen in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout\DosKeybCodes