Q. Hello Richard, have read your article in Courier paper about changing my Spanish keyboard to English. However when I go into control panel I do not have a section “regional settings”. I do have a section called “regional language” so I go into that but there is not a “keyboard & languages” tab – could you please advise me on what else I can do to change my keyboard. I am on Windows XP operating system.
A. Hi Shirley, the full instructions for Windows XP are as follows…
- Click Start and then Control Panel
- In Control Panel, if you are in Category View, click on Switch to Classic View (top left corner)
- Open Regional and Language Options.
- Click on the Languages tab.
- Under Text services and input languages, click on the Details button.
- Under Installed services, click Add.
- In the Add Input Language dialog box, choose the input language and keyboard layout or Input Method Editor (IME) you want to add.
- Click OK twice. You should now see a language indicator in the System Tray (located at bottom right hand corner of the desktop by default). You can switch between different input languages (= keyboard languages) by pressing the Alt + Shift keys