"stevenjasmin" <stevenjasmin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i have a new german laptop with vista, i understand i need to install an
> english version of vista but will this change the operation of my german
> keyboard,


Is it pure German or a multilingual keyboard? Keyboards can be replaced but
may not be cheap..

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