Windows supplies an 'International' layout with a limited range of accents, but using this layout makes the quotation mark and apostrophe keys unusable. These keyboard layouts fix this situation: one duplicates the standard U.S. Layout used on the Mac (also identical to the 'Canadian English' keyboard layout), and the other replicates. The non-standard default U.S. Layout on Apple Macintosh computers allows input of diacritical characters, whereby the entire MacRoman character set is directly available. Apple supplies a 'British' keyboard layout with the following differences. The market is filled up with a variety of ergonomic apple keyboard, but the best ergonomic apple keyboard that suits your needs can be a bit difficult to find. But, if you leave it in the hands of experts, like us, then you can be assured that you will land up with a reliable and trusted ergonomic apple keyboard. This model of the Apple keyboard also has two down-stream USB 2.0 ports, one at each end of the keyboard (like M2452 and M7803). This model was renamed as the 'Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad' after the release of the A1242 model in March 2009. This model was discontinued on 5 June 2017 and was the last wired keyboard produced by Apple.
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Because I am now working on a .Net project and I don't want to work on a PC 😉 , I decided to install Windows as guest on my Mac in VirtualBox.
Everything works perfectly fine except that Windows doesn't like my Apple keyboard. What a surprise! 🙄
After a quick search on Google, I found a fix for:
- the Apple German keyboard: http://www.miscdebris.net/blog/2009/04/17/apple-keyboard-keymap-german-for-windows-running-as-guest-on-mac-os-x-host-in-virtualbox/
- the Apple Swedish keyboard: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1871#comment:11
- and even the MacBook Pro UK keyboard: http://www.linickx.com/archives/2931/macbook-pro-uk-keyboard-layout
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But I didn't find anything for the ‘normal' Apple UK keyboard. Unfortunately, I can't use the MacBook Pro UK keyboard layout because it is slightly different than the USB and Wireless Apple UK keyboards layout. 🙁
So my friend Google 😛 didn't leave me any other choice than create my own keymap for this keyboard using the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.
You can download it clicking on the following link: Keyboard Layout Setup Files (English UK – Apple). And here is the source KLC file if you want to make change to it: Source KLC File for English UK – Apple Keyboard Layout. Apple music on xbox 360.
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To use, simply unzip, run setup, and then in your keyboard settings (Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options) change to 'United Kingdom – Custom'. You may wish to remove the default UK keyboard to avoid confusion. If it still doesn't work, don't hesitate to reboot Windows! 😉
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This is working well on my VirtualBox but it should also work on any Windows instance (i.e. VMWare, Parallels, etc). Macbook pro locked with find my mac.
