I am creating a virtual machine which was installed in a German OU. This OU has German settings for location and keyboard layout. I want to change the default keyboard layout from German to English.

Example:

To do that, login as Administrator and start RegEdit.exe. Browse than to:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload

Change REG_SZ names 1 to the Keyboard layout you need. I needed to have this Default in English (EN) instead of German (DE).

"1"="00000407" ==> English
"2"="00000409" ==> German

After the Preload setting has been changed I logged off and saw that new setting was applied.