The keyboard is one of the biggest headaches for Windows 7 users. If this is unconfigured, the task of comfortably operating the computer begins to become more and more complex. This is normal if we consider that this is one of the main hardwares to navigate the operating system, but fortunately it is quite simple to solve most problems that arise in this version of the Microsoft platform .
Microsoft has developed a series of assistants to help solve the main problems that arise in your system, among which the keyboard deconfiguration problems are valued. However, to make sure that these bugs will be corrected perfectly, the best thing you can do is put on your gloves and set up the keyboard manually .
In this article we will show you how to correctly configure the keyboard in Windows 7 as quickly and easily as possible . In addition, you will learn to make complex changes such as the default position of the keys, and even to make everything return to normal in case you do something wrong in the process or simply want your keyboard to work as if you were just using it.
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Steps to configure the keyboard on your Windows 7 computer
Configuring a keyboard is a very simple process that does not need an expert in technology or computer science, for this we explain in a clear way what are the steps to follow to configure the keyboard on your computer from Windows 7.
What you should do is the following:
- Enter the control panel and click on the “Accessibility” section and once there select the “Change keyboard operation” option.
- When you do this, a window like the one in the following image will open from which you can configure aspects such as “Mouse keys” ; to set a setting that allows you to control the pointer with the keypad, “Activate filter keys” ; to optimize the speed of the keyboard repeat, « Toggle «; so that by pressing the BloqMayus or BloqNum keys the computer makes a sound, and other interesting aspects.
- Once all the changes have been made, you just have to click on “Accept” and then restart the computer so that all the changes are applied successfully.
Another aspect that you can configure is the language , something that completely changes the operation and the order of the keys, for this it follows these points:
- You must enter the “Control Panel”, to do this you simply click on “Start” and look for the option that takes you to the panel. There you will select the keyboard you are going to start using.
- In the Control Panel window you will look for the «Clock, language and region» , right there you will find the “Change keyboards and other input methods” option and click.
- Then a pop-up window will appear, which will be called “Regional and language settings” , and as indicated in the following image, click on “Change keyboards” .
- A small window will open with the title “Service / input languages” . There you look inside the “General” tab the type of keyboard you want to change.
- If the keyboard you want does not appear in the list, you can click on “Add” and it will show a list where you will see all the existing keyboards in the Windows 7 system and select the one of your preference and click on equallyAdceptively.
- Once the keyboard you want to use is selected, click on the “Apply” button to save and apply all changes.
- To complete click on «Acepar», and in this way you will have configured your keyboard.
In this step it will be verified that the configuration has been done with success, for this you open the Word document and perform the arroba (@) test, which consists of performing a specific sequence of keys and if a “@” appears on completion, the configuration is correct.
Here are the sequences for some of the most used keyboards:
- Spanish (Spain): AltGr + Q
- Spanish (Latin American): AltGr + Q
- English: Uppercase + 2
- Spanish ( Spain, international): AltGr + 2
How to reallocate the keyboard keys and change the commands in Windows 7?
If you think that any key on your keyboard should have a new function because it would be more useful, this is the time to give it to you. Don’t you know how? Here we show you:
Download MapKeyboard for Windows
- You must first download the program MapKeyboard. You can find it completely free, in addition it is a simple and very useful software.
- After install the application , open it and you will see a virtual keyboard appear (or on-screen keyboard ). Press on the key (of the virtual keyboard) that you are going to change and in the lower left you will see an option «Remap selected Key to» , there you choose a new functionality. You apply this process to all the keys you are going to reassign.
- To finish, save the chosen layout for the keys by clicking on the “Save Layout” option. With only three steps you can reassign keyboard functions in Windows 7.
How to reset the default settings of the Windows 7 keyboard?
In the event that one day you make changes that you don’t like, you can make the keyboard return to its factory settings easily.
For this there are two methods that we will teach you below:
First method:
- Use the aforementioned application (MapKeyboard) and look for the “Reset Keyboard Layout” option and click on it.
- In this way the program will force you to restore all the settings and eliminate the designs and changes you have made.
Second method:
No program is used to do the configuration restoration , it will only be necessary to know the options that the same system offers you.
- Start by right-clicking on the “ Taskbar “, a drop-down menu is displayed.
- Click on the toolbar option and select “Language bar” (the keyboard layout appears in the taskbar). Or you can also access the language bar, looking for the “ES” icon in the taskbar and clicking on it, it shows a list of options and you click on the language bar.
- Then you click on the language you see there, a small list of languages will be displayed, which will select the language you are going to apply to your keyboard. On most Windows 7 computers the default value for the keyboard is English (United States) or Spanish (Spain, international) .
- And if the keyboard or language which is already selected is the one you need or want to leave but you only want to restore its default values, in the same language bar locate a small arrow with a downward direction click on it and it will display a list of options which you will see last in list the option “Restore Defaults” and click there.
In this way you can restore the values of your keyboard , in a simple way and without downloading a number of programs to do it, even if it seems a longer method, it is actually short, you just have to Know the position of each option and go.
Now you know everything you need to make a successful keyboard configuration and even return to the default settings in case you make a change that you don’t like. So start putting it into practice so you don’t forget it and don’t have to pay anyone else to do it for you.