If you try to use a Japanese Keyboard with an English version of Windows XP the geniuses at Microsoft have designed it so that you will not be able to enter backslashes without messing with the Windows Registry Keys. Backslashes are used to access other PCs and servers on a windows network making this limitation very annoying.
You will need to make changes to the Windows registry and then reboot for this to work. Confirmed this fix works.
Copy and paste below in to notepad. Name the file WindowsXPKeyboardFix.reg
Double click the file to make changes to the registry and reboot. You can enter these changes manually and it will also work.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[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
If you can’t get it to work get a Mac or create a Hackintosh. See my article on how to get OSX running on a MSI Wind.
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