A friend of mine came to me with a french Windows XP where windows had decided that keyboard would now be english-US keyboard instead of french keyboard.

After a few attempts, I came to the strange conclusion that it's impossible to change it. Whatever keyboard configuration I apply, the language dialog does not complain but sticks to the english-us keyboard.

I tried :

• setting two keyboards, with FR as default
• setting two keyboards, with EN-US as default
• one keyboard as FR

It's like it was impossible to apply a new keyboard configuration. Any idea what could be wrong ?