For S.

My love sends me lobe, lisses and all gibbt – please help me decipher that! – Leonard Blumfeld (© 2014) Note Have you noticed how typing accuracy has gone down the drain with the advent of touch screen keypads? A great big cheer to the advances of technology!

Did you know that in Windows 8, instead of having to only use the typical "tablet style" virtual keyboard that lacks some of the keys that normal physical keyboards have, you can change it to the standard PC layout? Well, now you do!

It's an easy function to miss, since you have to go trough some of the settings to make it available.

The traditional tablet keyboard in Windows 8 (and other tablets) looks like this.

While it's good for typing relatively fast and without too many typos (thanks to wider spacing between the keys), sometimes you just need the full keyboard with alt, tab, arrows or Windows key for various things like shortcuts within old desktop apps.

In order to make the traditional PC layout appear in the options on the bottom right corner of the keyboard, you'll have to go to your PC settings.

To open your settings, swipe from the right and click the cogwheel, and then "Change PC settings" at the bottom. There, choose the "General" tab and scroll until you reach the option saying "Make the standard keyboard layout available". Switch that to On and you're good to go.

Now the traditional keyboard layout should appear in the menu where you can switch between different layouts. Note that the layout is out of the box fit for your language -- in my case Finnish.