Windows 10 - PS/2 UK keyboard not working properly

Question

A few weeks ago, I assembled a new PC and installed Windows 10. I already have another PC under Windows 7.

I have had lots of issues with setting up Win 10 but one of the more irritating is that I could not set up the English UK keyboard and get the characters I was used to. I use a PS/2 keyboard, basically because I have three of them and one I especially like as it just 'feels' right.

Basically, I want the @ key to be on the "' key near the key and the " key to be 2, so the reverse of a US keyboard.

I could not get this to work at all, despite deleting all other keyboards but English UK. If I also set up a US English keyboard then I could get the keys to work in US layout. If I switched to UK layout, then as soon as I hit the 2 key, it changed to English US and that was it, it would change to US until I deleted the US layout.

Then when I deleted the US, although I could get the " on 2, I could not seem to get the @ near the Enter key at all on the UK layout.

In frustration after many attempts, I left my finger on the key and suddenly, I got a load of @@@@@@s. I discovered that there was a fairly long delay after hitting and the " key and the @ character would only appear AFTER I released both keys. It would not appear instantly as it does on my Win 7 machine.

However, I had to reduce the repeat rate to almost zero or I would get about 20 @s to appear. This is hard to work with if I later want to delete eg, a line with backspace as it takes forever.

I find this very poor and difficult to work with and I can't see why is should work differently on the Win 10 PC to the old Win 7.

I spent hours deleting and re-installing layouts, searching the net for fixes, all to no avail.

Does anyone know how I can get this PS/2 keyboard to work as is should and does on the Win 7 machine? Is there a registry tweak that works? I have read a few, on here and elsewhere, tried them all but nothing. Or is that the way it works with a UK keyboard under Win 10? I can hardly believe that would be true.

As I said, I have 3 PS/2 keyboards and all work fine on the Win 7 setup, but all 3 have this problem on the Win 10 machine.

Any ideas?