As my previous posting indicated, I now have a new aluminium Mac keyboard on for use on my Windows development machine. I also provided a link to the keyboard drivers and Boot Camp control panel. However, there was a problem!

For some ridiculous reason, the £ symbol is used on the 3 key, and you have to press ctrl-shift-3 to get a # symbol. For a programmer, this is not a good situation. The # is needed far more than £ ever is. What to do? Well, I figured I could do the same as I do on my MacBook; use the US keyboard map. The benefit is that it's exactly the same as the UK keyboard map, with the # and £ switched around. Marvellous. Could I find one? Could I hell.

Here's where the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Tool came in handy. I've created a keyboard layout based on the United Kingdom (Apple) layout installed by Boot Camp with one very small change.

• The # (hash) is now accessed by shift-3
• The £ (pound sign) is now accessed by ctrl-alt-3

Brilliant. You can download the United States (Apple) for English (United Kingdom) layout by just clicking the link. Have fun!