If a workaround is that I have to install XP in a VMWare box and run DOSBox in that and my Intel Core-2 Quad processor can run it smoothly with no stuttering audio, then that's an acceptable workaround. But I need the keyboard to work correctly first. I tried installing FreeDOS in a VMWare virtual machine, but the audio in a game I installed was stuttery and I'm hoping it will work correctly in DOS Box. I also set keyboardlayout=en-us in the nf file, also to no avail. Has any solution or workaround been discovered? I've tried running USESCANCODES FALSE from the DOS Prompt inside of DOSBox and that didn't make any difference. I've ready other posts here from people having the same problem. But that doesn't help me solve my problem. I am running Vista Ultimate 32-bit, and before anyone jumps in to blame or flame Vista, you're probably right. Other keys are also not working correctly, the \ key gives me ] instead, the ] gives me [, and the [ key doesn't work at all, nor does the +/= key or the `/~ key or the '/' key. Even in the keymapper (ctrl-F1 from inside DOSBox), if I click the area for the right SHIFT key, click, then click, when I press the right-Shift key nothing happens. When I start it up and get to the DOS Prompt, the keyboard doesn't work properly. I just intalled DOSBox 0.72 with the intention of installing older DOS games.