Japanese Keyboard in English XP

[Guest Johnny Muskrat]

I was able to get a Japanese 106 keyboard to work in an English version of

WinXP. I went to Acer's website and found common support issue with

keyboards not working properly. They have a registry patch available for

download. The support page is as follows and it is in Japanese:

http://www.acer.co.jp/support/faq/desktop/desktop061201001.html

 

Here is a direct link to the file in the event you don't read Japanese:

http://www.acer.co.jp/support/faq/desktop/key/kbd_j106.zip

 

You must reboot after installation.

 

Here is the contents of the registry patch:

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters]

"LayerDriver JPN"="kbd106.dll"

"LayerDriver KOR"="kbd101a.dll"

"OverrideKeyboardType"=dword:00000007

"OverrideKeyboardSubtype"=dword:00000000

"OverrideKeyboardIdentifier"="PCAT_106KEY"

"PollingIterations"=dword:00002ee0

"PollingIterationsMaximum"=dword:00002ee0

"ResendIterations"=dword:00000003

 

You may want to print off the registry values before running the patch. Use

the "Run" function and run "regedit" and follow the path shown above.