keyboard

[Philthegreek]

hi, i am english and live in greece, just bought a new HP of the amazon german (english) site, when the item was delivered i realised i had made a mistake as the keyboard is german, my question is this, could it be a simple remedy by just changing the key board to an english qwerty board, ????? 

[The_Fossette]

Hi @Philthegreek

Welcome to the HP Forums!

Thank you for posting your query in this forum, it's a great place to find answers.

I reviewed your post and I understand that you want to know whether you can change the keyboard layout on your computer.

I’d love to help!

I would like to inform you that you can the keyboard layout on your computer to English. Here is what you need to do change the language.

The first thing we need to do is launch the classic Control Panel, you can do this by pressing the Win + R keyboard combination and selecting Control Panel from the context menu.

To save a few clicks, switch to the Small icons view.

Then go ahead and select the new Language option.

On the right-hand side you will see an options hyperlink, click on it.

It is over here that you will be able to add and remove keyboard layouts.

Let me know how it goes and you have a great day!

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Take care.

Cheers!

[Philthegreek]

Sorry friend this is not the problem, its the actual keys on the keyboard, the actual keys are for german speaking, what i kneeded to know was can i physicaly take it apart and put in an actual english keyboard, i suppose i could with no problem, but ??? Would an english keyboard work on the system ???

[The_Fossette · Accepted solution]

Hi @Philthegreek

Thank you for posting back.

Yes, you can change the actual keyboard on the computer and it will work if you change the layout to English in the operating system as well.

Hope that answers your question.

To simply say thanks, please click the "Thumbs Up" button to give me a Kudos to appreciate my efforts to help. If this helps, please mark this as “Accepted Solution” as it will help several others with the same issue to get it resolved without hassles.

Take care.

Cheers

[Philthegreek]

No problem friend, i will try and seek out further infomation as HP support say its not possible as my model is only sold in germany, but is suspect all keyboards are interchangable, i will check out the part numbers. Thanks.

[The_Fossette]

Hi @Philthegreek

Thank you for posting back

If you can provide me the model and the product number of your computer, I can let you know the part number and what keyboard is compatible with your computer.

Looking forward to your reply.

Take care!

[Philthegreek]

I wil look when i get home. Many thanks

[Philthegreek]

Hi sorry for the delay, the product number is W6Y03EA, and the model nomber is 17-y021ng. Cheers.

[Philthegreek]

hi,did you get my reply