Multilingual keyboard layout when logging on Welcome screen


Hello, I have a problem when typing passwords on the Welcome screen. My Windows XP Media Center edition was bougth in the US and had English as the default language. I created and use an administrator account and a limited account. For both I added Catalan and Korean language input services, and set Catalan as the default language.

Well, Microsoft always instructs us to use complex user account passwords. For your knowledge, on the Catalan keyboard symbols like @, -, (, *, or # are placed under totally different keys from English; moreover, some keys are used to represent letters and signs that don't exist in English (ñ, ç, ï, ¿, ·, º). So, a few days ago I got locked out from my administrator account because I created the password in one language but the Welcome screen only allowed typing in the other language, so that I couldn't type some of the characters. There's a tab next to the text field that says which language is admitted, but it switches for no reason whatsoever and everytime I get to that logon screen it is either EN (English or CA (Catalan), without giving any alternative. Last time it had switched back to Catalan, so I hope I won't have to use the password reset disk. Two weeks ago I had to reinstall Windows because suddenly it stopped admitting the administrator's password, and retrospectively I suspect this was the cause. By the way, both accounts admit only one and the same language each time I try to log on.

So, is there any way to fix this bug, or else will I have to drop passwords altogether?

Rubén

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