euro symbol

Are you sure that you installed the correct language settings? I have a UK-keyboard and just installed the keyboard layout for French/Belgium and it worked perfectly!

1.press the START button

2.type "keyboard"

3.choose "change keyboard or other input methods"

4.select "keyboard and languages"

5.click "change keyboards..."

6.Under "General" choose "Add"

7."French(Belgium)" - keyboard - Belgian French

I worked with this setting ."French(Belgium)" - keyboard - Belgian French

Changing this setting to Dutch(Belgium)- keyboard "point" or "komma" gives the same problem

Typing other caractors with AltGr are working, only AltGr+e gives no caractor at all

I booted from a bootable USB stick with LinuxMint on it - changed keyboard settings to FRANCE and it worked too...

Before messing around with Windows and reinstalling etc you might want to try booting LinuxMint

Download "YUMI" (very easy to use) and a LinuxMint 10 or 11  whatever is available:LinuxMint is about 850MByte,so it takes a while to download.

www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator

By the way - if you have more than one language installed make sure that when you change from one setting to another that  the new settings are really active !

I  forgot to mention that I have an Inspiron 1545 -but the keyboard settings should work the same way.

I do not understand why I need to boot

I understand that rebooting means starting my laptop into a different os than Windows

If this works we need to reboot from the hard drive : why should the problem be gone ?

As you say I will not reinstall Windows for this problem

Booting LinuxMint from USB will not fix your problem-but if your keyboard works with Linux then you know for sure that you have a problem with windows and not the hardware.

You don't have to do that - it's just an idea to narrow down the problem.I honestly don't know why your keyboard won't display the € - sign.

Maybe somebody else can come up with a better idea

Your idea worked : I started in safe mode and the problem was solved

Back to normal mode I found out that the problem occured with the start of WLTRAY.EXE

I will look further into this

Thanks

I changed already to other languages but problem remains