Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator will allow you to create custom keyboard layouts for your language Microsoft does not support in Windows. Should you wish to create a custom key setting for your keyboard, you are sure to find this free 10 MB download from Microsoft very useful.
We have already seen how to change Keyboard Layout in Windows, now let us seen how to create custom keyboard layouts.
Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator
You can use the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to tweak your keyboard by adding special characters or change the layout completely. One particularly useful function is the so-called “Dead key”, with which you can make any key into a dead key.
The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC), extends the international functionality of Windows systems by allowing users to:
- Create new keyboard layouts from scratch
- Base a new layout on an existing one
- Modify an existing keyboard layout and build a new layout from it
- Multilingual input locales within edit control fields
- Build keyboard layout DLLs for x86, x64, and IA64 platforms.
- Package the resulting keyboard layouts for subsequent delivery and installation.
You can download Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator from Microsoft.
TIP: This post will show you how to add or remove Keyboard layout in Windows.
Also read: How to use Keyboard Manager in PowerToys.
Did not work well with Windows 8. Thanks, Microsoft…
how to create new layout for keys under NumLock key (/ * – + . 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Enter) ?
You are an idiot Zoltar, however did MS not have the foresight to make sure it worked with an OS to be released 7 years later. Please do give us the link to the software you wrote.
You are an idiot. If they released a new OS, they should have made sure to update their tools to work with the new OS. And a keyboard layout is a _very_ important tool for many users, because the default qwerty is inefficient and painful.