I reinstalled my WinXP last weekend, and have been annoyed by this the entire week already. My last install just did it like that, too. Anyway, how to fix:

• Open regedit
• Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Keyboard Layout
• Create DWORD called Attributes and set the hexadecimal value to 00010000
• Reboot

Enjoy!

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