Forcing Windows to use a Japanese keyboard

To force the operating system to use a certain keyboard, make the following changes in the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters

Value name Value type Value data
LayerDriver JPN REG_SZ kbd106.dll
OverrideKeyboardIdentifier REG_SZ PCAT_106KEY
OverrideKeyboardSubtype DWORD 2
OverrideKeyboardType DWORD 7

More information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927824/en-gb

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