Russian keyboard layouts may differ. This is the layout which Windows will give you after installation of Russian language on your PC.
If you are using Windows 98 or 95b (Windows upgrade), all you need to read Cyrillic is provided by Microsoft. Simply open Control Panel and double click 'Add/Remove Programs'. In that file, select the 'Windows Setup' tab and double-click 'Mulltilanguage Support'. Check 'Cyrillic language support' and then click 'OK'. Make sure you do not uncheck any other property or it will be removed from Windows. Click 'OK' and insert your Windows 95b or Windows 98 disk in the appropriate drive.
Once the support is installed, return to 'Control Panel' and double click 'Keyboard'. Choose the 'Language' tab and then push the 'Add' button. From the pull-down menu, select 'Russian' and choose a hot key to toggle between English and Russian, e.g. 'Cntl+Shift' will toggle the keyboards when you hold down 'Contrl' and hit 'Shift'. Click 'OK'. You may have to insert your Windows disk again. When this operation is completed, you should have a small icon at the bottom right-hand corner of your screen (right side of the tray) 'EN'. If you click it a toggle window with 'Russian' and 'English' will pop up. These toggle between the English and Russian keyboard. Windows supports only the standard Russian keyboard, not the learner's letter-for-letter keyboard. You can also toggle it by the hotkey combination you chose.
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