The letter x on the English layout. How to enter a password without the correct keyboard layout

The situation when, when logging into the system, there is no input language in which the password or account name is specified, does not occur often. However, judging by the forum, this problem is sometimes faced by unlucky lovers of Cyrillic passwords who have lost the ability to log into the system. After all, if an account, as a rule, can be selected with the mouse, then the password definitely needs to be entered from the keyboard.

The figure below shows the user's login window User-Name, who set the password for his account in Russian. But the only possible input language is English, otherwise a button for switching the keyboard layout would be displayed in the red highlighted area.

This problem can be solved without any special tricks, since even in the absence of the required layout, you can enter both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet from the keyboard using ASCII character tables.

How to enter characters from ASCII tables

You will find a table with the meanings for Cyrillic and Latin characters below, and I will first explain how to enter them.

Open notepad, for example, to see how it works. The characters are entered like this:

1. Press and hold the key ALT
2. Enter a value (for example, 170 for lowercase letter "k")
3. Release the key ALT and you will see the result

For example, the word “Ocean” is entered like this:

O=ALT+142 k=ALT+170 e=ALT+165 a=ALT+160 n=ALT+173

ASCII tables (for the Cyrillic alphabet the MS-DOS 866 code table is indicated)

Add a keyboard layout to the welcome screen

Once you log in, don't forget to add the missing keyboard layout to your welcome screen. On all Windows operating systems, this can be done in the registry. All you need to do is import the following REG file into the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;English layout "1"="00000409" ;Russian layout "2"="00000419" ;Layout number 1 will be offered by default

These settings apply to the current user. To apply them to all users, changes must be made to the section

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload

By the way, in Windows 7 the same effect can be achieved in the graphical interface.

FAQ

How to enter the Ukrainian letter i?

I - Alt+0178
i - Alt+0179

To be continued…

How to change the keyboard layout? By simultaneously pressing two keys:

• Alt+Shift(more often and more standard)
• Ctrl+Shift(less often, you need to configure Windows - but it’s more convenient).

The “Control + Shift” keys at the bottom right of the keyboard are more often used by those who are familiar with the computer: it’s easier to aim your fingers at the bottom extreme buttons than to look for the Alt key somewhere near the space bar. And not all keyboards have a convenient Alt location: especially on small laptop input devices, you often hit the Windows key with your finger, but not the one that changes the language layout.

How to change buttons to switch keyboard layouts

The Eng-Ru keyboard layout icon is located in the Windows tray

The Windows 7 keyboard has its own “dashboard” - the Language Bar. The easiest way to call it is by right-clicking on the icon with the language layout, then “Options...”. This icon (Rus/Eng) is located in the lower right corner of the monitor, near the clock in the tray.

How to customize your keyboard in Windows

The “Languages ​​and Text Input Services” dialog box appears - the “Keyboard Switching” tab we need is located to the right of the others.

In the dialog for changing keyboard shortcuts, everything is clear on an intuitive level. Changing the input language is done using the Alt+Shift combination by default; It’s more convenient to switch the layout change to Ctrl+Shift. The right side of the menu, where it says about changing the keyboard layout, should not be touched. A pair of familiar “Ok” and “Apply” buttons - now the Russian-English layout will be replaced by the leftmost keyboard buttons.

How to add Ukrainian (Uzbek, Kazakh) font to your computer keyboard

In Windows 7 and newer operating systems, everything is already built-in and at hand. Right-click on the layout switch icon in the menu Options call the window Text input languages ​​and services. Usually the main language pair is already listed there - Russian and English. It is easy to add additional national layouts.

1. Open the Language panel (right click on the language icon).
2. Here is the “Add” button.
3. We select the desired language and the corresponding layout from a huge list (on the right is a drop-down plus sign).
4. As usual – “apply”. Ready!

When adding a third (and fourth, etc.) language to the operating system, neither the English keyboard layout nor its Russian variation will go anywhere.

By the way, you can find out the Windows version in a second by looking at the keyboard layout change icon. If the language is displayed as three letters (Eng or Rus), then we have Win 10. If there are only two letters (En/Ru), then we are on Windows 7 or an older version of the OS.

Photo of Russian-English keyboard layout

Oh, and is it difficult to put the buttons back together in the correct order after taking it apart? The fingers know the location of the letters, but the eyes refuse to remember. Or another case - you need to put transparent stickers with Russian keys on the English keyboard - but it’s difficult to do this from memory.

For such cases, we present a photo of the order of letters for the Russian keyboard layout and for the English keyboard layout. You won’t have to remember anymore - everything is before your eyes.

IBM/Windows 105-key keyboard layout

Quite a common situation. Let's imagine that you entered a password in English or Russian Windows using a Russian keyboard layout. And it seems like there’s nothing wrong with it, but if you can’t change the layout in the Windows login window, then how can you enter the password and get into the long-awaited system?

Regular ASCII will help solve this problem. Yes, yes, you have them too, you don’t need to go anywhere.

All operating systems natively support international ASCII characters. This means that we have the opportunity to enter characters from another layout, even if it is not installed. That is, if the layout is only English, this will not prevent you from entering characters in Russian. Beauty!

Entering a password on this screen without the required layout is easy

To enter an ASCII character, press and hold down the key , then (without releasing it) press the key 0 (zero) on the numeric keypad and then immediately enter the required value.

How to enter an ASCII character

Let's try it right now. Select the Russian layout (RU) in Windows. Let's try, without changing it, to enter the English letter “Q”.

To do this, we perform the following steps sequentially. First, of course, open any text editor, in general, the area, even ICQ, where the character will be entered.

1. .
2. Press and hold the key 0 .
3. Without releasing these two keys, press 81 .

As you can see, the capital letter Q has appeared. This gives us the opportunity to enter the password in any layout without any problems.

You don't have to use the numeric keypad to enter numbers - it's just more convenient. But you can use the regular keys on the top row of the keyboard without any problems.

Now let's try the other way around - select the English layout (EN) and enter the Russian letter “G”.

All the steps are the same as last time, just enter the number this time 195 . Immediately after you release , the capital letter we need will appear.

As you can see, all you need to know is the number of the required symbol. Finding it is not difficult - the following table will help us with this.

Basic ASCII characters

The following ASCII characters will help you enter any desired letter in the English or Russian keyboard layout.

Now you will not have any problems with entering passwords if the layout suddenly “goes wrong” or you did not select it at the installation stage.