Beautiful Keyboard HENSHIN!

Okay, I guess the Microsoft IME has changed since I used it last, but I thought one of the points of the IME was so that I could input romaji into the keyboard and have it turn it into Japanese for me.

Well, that's not all, it looks like. In Windows 7, it's turned my 101-key US keyboard into a 106-key Japanese keyboard! The mappings are off in a few places and, oh yeah, where's backslash? On a virtual key that is mapped to nothing on my physical keyboard? Graaaaah... this is what happens when the computer is assuming I have 5 more keys I don't have.

Shift-0 does nothing, I can't find underscores, backslashes, pipes, and yen symbols, I've gotten familiar with Shift-7 being single quote ('), and the fact that the parenthesis are a key to the left of what I'm used to... I don't think I have a squiggly, either.

Maybe I should look for a way to get Dvorak working on some odd IME. I've wanted to use it, but never got into it because there wasn't an IME I could find that allowed Dvorak->Japanese input. Or I guess I could get a Japanese keyboard.

Update: Looks like answers online have all said to modify the Windows Registry, then restart Windows.

(http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/windows-7-japanese-ime-keyboard-layout/67b8e896-e920-4969-bf48-6df5a6c5c9cc) For converting back to a 101-key layout.

(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/eth0/20090606/1244297433) For converting Japanese input into Dvorak Japanese input. Specifically, do a Ctrl-F for レジストリを書き換え変換.

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Okay, so I'm totally not used to typing this way... so I'm gonna change back for now. Maybe I'll write down the format on a card or something and make use of it, but most keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-A) are all designed for QWERTY users, so eh...

Maybe I'll just get used to typing with it someday so I can see how I like it.