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I have a Macbook Air (Late 2010) and am running Windows 7 Home Premium via VMWare Fusion. It works great, except that I have to press the key labelled as '@' (i.e. shift 2) to get a quote mark ", and vice versa - press the quote key to get an @.

How can I configure Windows to know that I am using a Mac keyboard? It detects the keyboard currently as a standard PS/2 keyboard. I live in the UK so the keyboard might be set up for UK as well.

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  • Which version of Mac OS X are you using? Which version of VMware Fusion are you using? Have you correctly installed the newest version of VMware Tools for Windows 7?
    – user9290
    Oct 8, 2011 at 14:48
  • Thanks for the info about the Keyboard Layout Creator. I now have a working install for the UK based on my MacBook Air purchased in the US. The grave and tilde key works correctly, and I have pound signs, hashes and euro signs just where I would expect them. And the speech marks and at sign work too! This has been driving me slowly nuts for weeks, so thanks again for the info. If anyone want the file then email me at [email protected]. Cheers - Rich
    – user23981
    Jun 14, 2012 at 12:38

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You are using a US keyboard layout. Switch it to UK.

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Changing to UK keyboard did not help in my case as it was already the default, so I found this link removed (removed as page no longer available) with a zip file you can download as well as good clear examples. Which seemed sorted the key's being mapped in the wrong location out for my UK mac keyboard running Windows 7 in VMware fusion.

Shift-2 = @ Ctrl-Alt-2 = € Shift-3 = £ Ctrl-Alt-3 = #

Update: I removed the link above. However, I wrote a post about this topic, if anyone finds it useful. Please note I managed to locate the download on cnet, see my note at the bottom of the blog post.

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Windows does not support this keyboard layout without a lot of custom modification. You can install a keyboard driver for Windows from the Mac Install Disk (the one that came with the machine). But this does not include the keyboard layout.

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  • But surely there's some way to reassign the keys? I notice there's KeyTweak but I don't want to move the '2' key whilst moving the '@' key!
    – Anthony
    May 19, 2011 at 17:51
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I have a French keyboard and had to create the proper keyboard layout "from scratch" (well I took the nearest working keyboard layout and modified it to behave like it does under Mac OS X, including dead keys and option/shift+option combos). To that end I used the official keyboard layout creator from Microsoft.

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Try changing the keyboard language from Control Panel on Windows 7 to match that of your actual keyboard, different languages map their keyboards differently. Eg. English keyboard starts QWERTY, German keyboards starts QWERTXZ

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If it helps anyone visiting this thread 6 years on, as I have: On Windows 10, I had to go to Settings > Advanced Keyboard settings and choose my keyboard again from the "Override for default input" settings - then my keyboard worked as expected.

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  • Are you using WIndows 7? Or something more recent, since this question is from 6 years ago.
    – Tom Gewecke
    Jun 11, 2018 at 15:22
  • Thanks, I should have said: I am using Windows 10. I have updated my answer.
    – robrecord
    Jun 14, 2018 at 13:26

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