If you want to continue to use a password that has extended characters, you must change the default keyboard settings in the registry as follows:
Windows NT 3.51:[*]Run Registry Editor (REGEDT32.exe).[*]From the HKEY_USERS subtree, go to the following key:\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout
[*]Change the value "Active" to the appropriate string. For example, the string 00000407 defines German keyboard layout and 00000409 defines U.S. keyboard layout. (See "More Information" for a list of language IDs.)An alternative solution is to use the User Profile Editor to modify the complete system default profile by saving the current user profile information as the system default profile.
Windows NT 4.0/Windows 2000:[*]Run Registry Editor (REGEDT32.exe).[*]From the HKEY_USERS subtree, go to the following key:\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload
Change the value for the following entry to contain the keyboard layout that you want to have avilable at logon. This example would set the default keyboard layout to Japanese:\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload
"1" REG_SZ = "0411"
NOTE: Beginning with Windows NT 4.0, the first keyboard layout in the list of available layouts is used by default. This behavior replaces the "Active" value that was used in previous versions of Windows NT.
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The default settings in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT are also used when you define a new user.
The following are the language IDs that are supported by Windows NT 3.51:
For Windows NT 4.0 and later, the following registry key tree contains a listing of keyboard layout codes:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts
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Windows NT 3.51:[*]Run Registry Editor (REGEDT32.exe).[*]From the HKEY_USERS subtree, go to the following key:\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout
[*]Change the value "Active" to the appropriate string. For example, the string 00000407 defines German keyboard layout and 00000409 defines U.S. keyboard layout. (See "More Information" for a list of language IDs.)An alternative solution is to use the User Profile Editor to modify the complete system default profile by saving the current user profile information as the system default profile.
Windows NT 4.0/Windows 2000:[*]Run Registry Editor (REGEDT32.exe).[*]From the HKEY_USERS subtree, go to the following key:\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload
Change the value for the following entry to contain the keyboard layout that you want to have avilable at logon. This example would set the default keyboard layout to Japanese:\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload
"1" REG_SZ = "0411"
NOTE: Beginning with Windows NT 4.0, the first keyboard layout in the list of available layouts is used by default. This behavior replaces the "Active" value that was used in previous versions of Windows NT.
MORE INFORMATION
The default settings in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT are also used when you define a new user.
The following are the language IDs that are supported by Windows NT 3.51:
For Windows NT 4.0 and later, the following registry key tree contains a listing of keyboard layout codes:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts