Where is the W key

I've been a bit lax with my entries for a few days because we finally got round to buying a new PC, the old PC crashed once too often. Reconfiguring, copying data, reinstalling programs, remembering passwords etc. takes ages. For some reason decided to buy a French PC, i.e. French Windows XP and French keyboard. The combination is absolutely driving me nuts. I can't type anything because all the letters are in the wrong places, you need to press the shift key to enter numbers from the top row and to cap it all I need a dictionary whenever Windows pops up a dialogue box or error message. It's really really frustrating. As an example typing http://www.google.com  comes out as http/::zzz;google;co, Bizarre.

Until I get used to the new keyboard layout my verbosity may be curtailed somewhat.
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