Japanese Keyboards and American Laptops! (18 and older only please)

[Emoni]

(Yes, the title is a joke...)

I recently bought two cheap Japanese keyboards. While these suckers are purposefully set up to create as many typos as possible with their shear number of keys jammed into one space, if you want to really type in Japanese they are what you want to go for. Thus, I am going to give learning to type Japanese on one of these things a shot.

However, I can't quite figure out how to set it up correctly with my America based Compaq laptop. I'm sure you have to somehow add a Japanese keyboard driver how, but I have never done this, and IME of course is a mangled mess that I don't expect to ever fully comprehend.

Has anyone set up one before in the past and has an idea what to do or where to start? Thanks for any help that is provided.

 

[ArmandV]

Good luck! Japanese keyboards are a pain to me. When in Japan, I will use a computer there and if I happen to hit the wrong key, the Japanese characters kick in.

 

[Emoni]

Ya, that before I figured out which keys changed that, I ended up typing emails half in English and half in Japanese sometimes, then it would switch back to Japanese somehow. Was kind of funny, but annoying...

 

[Emoni]

Hmm, guess know one ever really knew how. I'll check around elsewhere, and if I find it I may post here for future reference. Not real sure where to look though.

 

[pipokun]

Control Panel->
Keyboard->
Hardware->Property->
Driver->
Update Driver Alt+P->
Alt+N->
Select a known driver from the list Alt+D->
Alt+N->
Display all hardware Alt+A, and choose Japanese keyboard->
Alt+N

 

[Emoni]

Thanks. It looks like this might have worked. I'll have to restart and see, but for the most part it looks like the settings are changed. Thank you very much. I didn't really know where to look for this sort of thing.