You could try the language pack for windows if you have office. It lets you set your keyboard to whatever language you selected. It can be a bit confusing though.
speaking of german... is there a way to view this site in english. the entire site that is... not just this forum.
i couldn't find any english language setting... which is fine (can't expect everyone to speak english!). but if there's some portal or some way of running a translation program in the background or something... that would be very helpful for my in my attempt to navigate around.
http://world.altavista.com provides an online translator and a world keyboard. If you click the world keyboard, it pops up a keyboard from the region/language you want.