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Download Keyboard Layouts for Windows (RUFIN series)

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Warning: If you are not sure where to find your Windows system directory, please, do not try any of the stuff from this page. Keyboard layouts and drivers are essential part of any operating system and an improper manipulation may cause a serious damage to your system. Please, proceed ahead only if you are fully aware what are you doing. Layouts on this page are available as such, without any kind of installation software. Try it, use it or throw it out, but don't blame me.

Instructions to setup your system

First make sure that you Windows system has fully operational Multilanguage support installed. You should have Finnish (or Swedish) and Russian languages installed. Taskbar input language switch should be visible and working (assuming Finnish set as default). The following instructions should work for Windows 2000 beta 3 and Windows 9x, setup for Windows NT4 version is similar.

Download the layout file appropriate for your MS Windows version.

Windows 9x :

Reboot.
Go to Control Panel, Keyboard, on tab named Language select Russian in the list, click Properties button. Ensure that Russian is selected as Keyboard layout also. If not, select, reboot and return back here. Press Cancel and close the tab dialog. Important: do NOT try to switch into Russian until next reboot!
Open File Manager, go to Windows system directory and make a backup of original kbdru.kbd system file.
Now replace this layout file with the downloaded one.
Reboot.
Now open any text editor which does support multiple languages (such as WordPad, Word, etc.), switch to Russian and just start typing! Done.

Windows 2000 :

Go to Control Panel, Keyboard, on tab named Input Locales select Russian in Installed Input Locales list, click Properties button. For Keyboard layout/IME select anything except Russian, for example, choose Russian (Typewriter). Click Apply or OK to commit. This should release the default Russian layout for replacing.
Open File Manager, go to Windows system32 directory and make a backup of original kbdru.dll system file.
Before renaming this file, delete copy of kbdru.dll file from the Windows system32\dllcache compressed system directory if exists. After that, rename the file from system32 directory. Windows 2000 smart recovery agent would see that the system file was changed, System File Protection Error notice will popup and after confirmation you should see the recovery prompt named Insert Disk. The dialog will ask to install Windows 2000 Setup CD. Do NOT put the setup disk into the drive and choose Cancel button instead.
After the original system file is renamed, copy the downloaded layout file in the same directory.
Go back to the Input Locales and set Russian as the keyboard layout for Russian language. Click OK. Now open any text editor which does support multiple languages (such as WordPad, Word, etc.), switch to Russian and just start typing!
If you get the second dialog prompting to insert the Windows CD after while, just click Cancel again. Done.

Description	Layout File	Notes
Russian for Finnish Keyboard Layout for Microsoft Windows 9x	kbdru.kbd - 688 bytes last updated 11.08.1999	Old layout made for Windows 95. Works in Windows 98 except some extra AltGr keys. Some letters are mapped differently from RUFIN A Series picture. You can also use Janko's Keyboard Generator instead to make a layout best suited to you needs.
Russian for Finnish Keyboard Layout for Microsoft Windows NT4	kbdru.dll - 8976 bytes last updated 11.08.1999	Old layout. Some letters are mapped differently from RUFIN A Series picture. Has lesser additional AltGr keys compared with layout for Windows 95.
Russian for Finnish Keyboard Layout for Microsoft Windows 2000 RUFIN A Series	kbdru.dll - 6928 bytes last updated 11.08.1999	See this layout picture here.