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T61p - Keybord question
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:31 pm
by nofuture
I'm tempted to buy T61p from US and ship to UK.
I have question raised in Marketplace regards taxes for shipping to UK and posibilities to avoid. Please share your thoughts
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=shipping
I would like to change keybord to UK, anyone tried this trick. How does it work? Any complications noticed?
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:35 pm
by erik
the T61p requires four screws removed for the palmrest and one more for the keyboard.
once it's installed...
- open the keyboard control panel and change the driver to a UK english keyboard (uncheck "show compatible hardware" to view all keyboards)
- open the regional/language control panel and install the UK english keyboard
- reboot
- open the regional/language control panel again and uninstall the US english keyboard
that's about it. i have a japanese keyboard on my T61p so i'm quite familiar with the process.
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:30 am
by ryengineer
Sir, open Keyboard Customizer Utility and change Thinkpad keyboard layout from English-US to English-UK.
Please first make sure you have
Keyboard Customizer Utility installed.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:31 pm
by erik
ryengineer wrote:Sir, open Keyboard Customizer Utility and change Thinkpad keyboard layout from English-US to English-UK.
Please first make sure you have
Keyboard Customizer Utility installed.
keyboard customizer cannot change the actual keyboard driver. he has to follow my directions above and manually install the UK-english keyboard driver in the regional and language options control panel.