Keyboard Photosmart 600 wrong characters

When i press the shift + @ keys the quote ( " ) character displays. Alternatively when I press the shift " key the (@) character displays. The rest of the keys appear to function normally. Any solutions?

That looks like keyboard layout is set to UK English....
Here are steps to set it to US-English...
Click Start , type intl.cpl in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
On the Keyboards and Language tab, click Change keyboards.
Click Add.
Expand the language that you want. For example, English (United States).
Expand Keyboard list, select the United States-International check box, and then click OK.
In the Default input language list, click Language name - United States-International (where Language name is the language that you selected in step 4), and then click OK two times.
In the Regional and Language Options dialog box, click OK.
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Sorry about last post because I really need a picture to illustrate my problem and it seems not easy to add a picture from local computer in this forum.So,this time,I'll detailly describe the problem in words.
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Last edited by fool (2014-02-22 23:40:43)

Well, it was worth a shot
edit: Read the wiki: "locale.conf contains a new-line separated list of environment variable assignments: besides LANG, it supports all the LC_* variables, with the exception of LC_ALL.
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