Language Locals and Keyboards

[reisve]

I got a new laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium in English. For business reasons, I need to keep the Language Locals as English US. The Laptop keyboard is Portuguese. I found that to have the Portuguese Keyboard, have to have the Portuguese Locals also. Eerytime I run a program in English the default Keyboard changes to english. How can I make the portuguese keyboard the default and delete the english keyboard?

Thanks

 

[linney]

What you are asking is controlled by what you have set for Regional Languages in the Control Panel. Read this article in Help and Support "Regional and Language Options overview" and see if you can solve it.

"Standards and Formats.

Provides a place for you to select how you want programs to display dates, times, currency, and numbers. Select the locale to control how these items are displayed. An example of the formatting for the current selection is shown under Samples.
Click the Customize button to change individual settings. For example, you can change how the date is displayed in short or long format.

Languages/ Details.

Enables you to add and remove input languages and text services. Input languages are the languages in which you enter and display text. Text services include keyboard layouts".