T61p - Keybord question

[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?

[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.

[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.

[erik]

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.