Using Mac US keyboard on windows

Hello,
I'm used to using my macbook keyboard. Yet I now need to use a pc with a standard pc keyboard. Like in mac you can set the keyboard to be a windows keyboard (indifferently from what is written on the keyboard) can you do the same for windows and set it to act like a mac keyboard?
Primarily with the mac keyboard i used to get the sqrt sign pressing alt and v. This doesn't work on the windows keyboard and i couldn't find shortcuts for these mathematical characters.

Hi Simpatico,
you can use the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator for that: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
Regards
Stefan

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