Logging on to Win2K3 - keyboard layout

[northturton]

Hi,

my Win2K3 VM is set up for the UK keyboard, as is my host environment (XP).

When I initially log in to the VM, the keyboard layout is UK. I have a password that contains an @ sign. However, when the Win2K3 VM locks due to non use and I ctrl+alt+del to log into it, the @ sign is now behind the 2 key, and the doublequote is where the @ key is - indicating a US keyboard layout? But when I've logged in, I still have a UK layout (I typed the keys into Notepad, so the 2 key is doublequotes again).

Any clues what the issue is?

Brian

[vbox4me2]

A workaround could be removing all other keyboard layouts on the Host so it can't switch anymore.

[northturton]

the host (Win XP) is enabled for UK keyboard only.

I'm using the Win2K3 VM for training, and I've just noticed whilst learning about Backups that it wanted the " rather than @ key when setting the user account password, so its within the VM as well as logging in from being locked. Some cases it expects " other cases it expects @. I suspect its virtualbox, as I've had Win2K3 installed within Virtual Pc before without problem (but the latter was so dire in performance with Win2K3 it was unuseable on a 2gb laptop).

Easiest way around my problem was to change my password so I wasn't using any non alphanumeric keys.