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Can I change the keyboard on my Laptop?

LauraX

LauraX

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I have a Toshiba L505 laptop and I am wondering if I could change my keyboard to a spanish keyboard.
 
If you want to change your keyboard to a Spanish keyboard, take it south of the United States border. This is America, here we speak and write in English.
 
If Toshiba made a Spanish keyboard for that computer, it should be entirely possible for it to be changed. You would just have to locate one, install it, and change your Windows language preference. In theory that is how it should work, though, I've never done this.

Usually changing the keyboard on a laptop is fairly easy. Do a search on disassembling your particular model and most of the time you will find videos and/or tutorial on how to do it. A Toshiba usually has a couple of plastic strips along the bottom of the keyboard that needs pulled up/taken out and then you can pry up on the keyboard and lift it out. Be careful it will be attached to the motherboard with a small ribbon cable that could easily be broken and it usually isn't very long.
 
It might be cheaper and easier to buy a external Spanish keyboard that uses a USB port. I've never seen one in Spanish but I'm sure they exist. The rest would be set in the software for Windows or what even OS you are using.
 
No computer expert here, but since the Spanish and English alphabet and numbers are the same, I am left wondering what needs to be changed. If I remember correctly, there is a setting in the program for language conversion. If you want to change the reading of the few English keys, they are probably available from Toshiba. Keys should just lift off.
 
REDDOGTWO said:
If you want to change your keyboard to a Spanish keyboard, take it south of the United States border. This is America, here we speak and write in English.
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RD, there are plenty of reasons to need to communicate in Spanish other than the border wars, a different subject altogether. Al is in Panama, I travel there, Costa Rica, Spain, Chile, others all speak Spanish. No need to run off a newby on their first post. JMO
 
jimbo said:
RD, there are plenty of reasons to need to communicate in Spanish other than the border wars, a different subject altogether. Al is in Panama, I travel there, Costa Rica, Spain, Chile, others all speak Spanish. No need to run off a newby on their first post. JMO
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No kidding. Hey jimbo, we agreed on something. :wink:
 
Another alternative - SpanishNewYork.com has detailed instructions as to how to use the standard keyboard to type Spanish characters with the numbers pad. Like I said, no computer expert. No idea how to link it.
 
How about an English?Arabic keyboard. It messed me up every time I used this laptop.
 

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jimbo said:
RD, there are plenty of reasons to need to communicate in Spanish other than the border wars, a different subject altogether. Al is in Panama, I travel there, Costa Rica, Spain, Chile, others all speak Spanish. No need to run off a newby on their first post. JMO
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I took the post as a spammer, if I am wrong, I apologize, if not :yum:.
 
Interestingly, Laura has not checked back in.
Joe, thanks for linking that site. I did learn something out of this thread.
Someday I will take the time to figure out how to use a computer.
 
After spending from the advent of the first Apple kit to now I'm trying to forget about computers. Even after working a little over a decade as a system analyst with a degree in Computer Science. I even wrote the software I run my storage business with and several other businesses over the years. I'm now at the point that I'm forgetting about learning more and keeping up. :wink:
 
joec said:
After spending from the advent of the first Apple kit to now I'm trying to forget about computers. Even after working a little over a decade as a system analyst with a degree in Computer Science. I even wrote the software I run my storage business with and several other businesses over the years. I'm now at the point that I'm forgetting about learning more and keeping up. :wink:
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I'm with you joec. I go all the way back to punch cards with one line of instruction. If you wanted a program to do something, you had to write it yourself and that usually meant boxes and boxes and boxes of data cards to be loaded in to a reader. What a nightmare.

Ever since I retired ten years or so ago, I don't even attempt to keep up.

I often wondered how languages with more than 26 letters handled their keyboards and now DavNay tells me ... they have more shift keys. Simple really. :biggrin:
 
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