Some times, you may find you can not login on a new imaged/setup computer and the reason is default keyboard is UK layout~
To mitigate this issue, you can change the key value with “Value Name” is 1 under hive:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload- Action: update
- Hive: HKEY_USERS
- Key Path:.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes
- Value name:1
- Default: unchecked
- Value type: REG_SZ
- Value data: 00000409
Change the “Value Data” to 00000409, which stand for English (United States).
Now the English (United States) should show in your login screen. And we need to make it default:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes configure the keyboard layouts preferred by the user. Create a REG_SZ type key:
- Action: update
- Hive: HKEY_USERS
- Key Path:.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes
- Value name: 00000c09
- Default: unchecked
- Value type: REG_SZ
- Value data: 00000409
Click OK, reboot your machine, the default Keyboard on your login screen should be English (United States)
Via GPO
If this happens to a imaging process, you may find it easy to change via GPO:
create a new policy, navigate to Computer Configuration > preferences > Windows Settings > Registry
Right click Registry, select New > Registry Item
- Action: update
- Hive: HKEY_USERS
- Key Path: click …, navigate to “
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload - Value name:1
- Default: unchecked
- Value type: REG_SZ
- Value data: 00000409
Click OK.
Then do similar for Substitutes:Right click Registry, select New > Registry Item
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes configure the keyboard layouts preferred by the user. Create a REG_SZ type key:
- Action: update
- Hive: HKEY_USERS
- Key Path:.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes
- Value name: 00000c09
- Default: unchecked
- Value type: REG_SZ
- Value data: 00000409
Link this to the computers that has the problems.
Language packs codes for Windows
| Language/region | Language/region tag | Language/region ID | Language/region decimal ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | ar-SA | 0x0401 | 1025 |
| Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | bg-BG | 0x0402 | 1026 |
| Chinese (Hong Kong SAR) | zh-HK Note: No longer used. See zh-TW. | 0x0c04 | 3076 |
| Chinese (PRC) | zh-CN | 0x0804 | 2052 |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-TW | 0x0404 | 1028 |
| Croatian (Croatia) | hr-HR | 0x041a | 1050 |
| Czech (Czech Republic) | cs-CZ | 0x0405 | 1029 |
| Danish (Denmark) | da-DK | 0x0406 | 1030 |
| Dutch (Netherlands) | nl-NL | 0x0413 | 1043 |
| English (United States) | en-US | 0x0409 | 1033 |
| English (United Kingdom) | en-GB | 0x0809 | 2057 |
| Estonian (Estonia) | et-EE | 0x0425 | 1061 |
| Finnish (Finland) | fi-FI | 0x040b | 1035 |
| French (Canada) | fr-CA | 0x0c0c | 3084 |
| French (France) | fr-FR | 0x040c | 1036 |
| German (Germany) | de-DE | 0x0407 | 1031 |
| Greek (Greece) | el-GR | 0x0408 | 1032 |
| Hebrew (Israel) | he-IL | 0x040d | 1037 |
| Hungarian (Hungary) | hu-HU | 0x040e | 1038 |
| Italian (Italy) | it-IT | 0x0410 | 1040 |
| Japanese (Japan) | ja-JP | 0x0411 | 1041 |
| Korean (Korea) | ko-KR | 0x0412 | 1042 |
| Latvian (Latvia) | lv-LV | 0x0426 | 1062 |
| Lithuanian (Lithuania) | lt-LT | 0x0427 | 1063 |
| Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway) | nb-NO | 0x0414 | 1044 |
| Polish (Poland) | pl-PL | 0x0415 | 1045 |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-BR | 0x0416 | 1046 |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | pt-PT | 0x0816 | 2070 |
| Romanian (Romania) | ro-RO | 0x0418 | 1048 |
| Russian (Russia) | ru-RU | 0x0419 | 1049 |
| Serbian (Latin, Serbia) | sr-Latn-CS Note: No longer used. See sr-Latn-RS. | 0x081a | 2074 |
| Serbian (Latin, Serbia) | sr-Latn-RS | 0x241A | 9242 |
| Slovak (Slovakia) | sk-SK | 0x041b | 1051 |
| Slovenian (Slovenia) | sl-SI | 0x0424 | 1060 |
| Spanish (Mexico) | es-MX | 0x080a | 2058 |
| Spanish (Spain) | es-ES | 0x0c0a | 3082 |
| Swedish (Sweden) | sv-SE | 0x041d | 1053 |
| Thai (Thailand) | th-TH | 0x041e | 1054 |
| Turkish (Turkey) | tr-TR | 0x041f | 1055 |
| Ukrainian (Ukraine) | uk-UA | 0x0422 | 1058 |