Windows – How to get german QWERTY on Windows

There is two problem here instead of just one: the first is to remap the Windows Key and the second is to detect and eventually avoid a remapping from a (suspected) software running in your sytem.

A) Remapping the keyboard to default values

The keyboard layout is located in these registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout

and they are a bit tricky to change so I suggest you two easy solutions to remap the Windows key to the default value.

1- Microsoft Keyboad Layout Creator

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?DisplayLang=en&id=22339

or

2- KeyTweak

http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/

Both are presented there: Remapping the Keyboard Layout in Windows XP, Vista, and 7

http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/remap-keyboard.htm

I suggest you to try first with KeyTweak because MKLC is a too much "heavy" solution: it create a huge setup file and "lighter" solution is, imho, better...

Just reset the "W key(s)" to their default value...

B) How to find the unwanted "remapper" culprit?

I suggest you to monitor which process is accessing the registry keys related to the keyboard layout with the Sysinternals Process Monitor.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

When you'll find it you'll decide what to do with this "remapper"... [e.g. Recycle bin... ;-)]

Hope this help. Let us know. :)

While you're in a Python 2.4.5 session, use this to locate the Python.exe that gets picked up:

import sys
print sys.executable

If you want to play with multiple versions, you cannot rely on %PATH%. Instead you could create separate batch files that call the version you want (make sure the batch files themselves are on the PATH though). For example, for 2.7.2 you could create a PY27.BAT that simply contains:

@C:\Python27\Python.exe $*