Help me with Cyrillic

[Tocci]

I need help with my CYRILLIC. The old computer worked with Windows 95 and I've used the Cyrillic program downloaded from Internet (for  $29).It worked really good,problemless.10 days ago my computer had an electric shock and burned the mother board.Now I use my home computer which runs XP ,I use Internet Explorer and Outlook Express,there's Academic Cyrillic in  but,I can't use it,because my keyboard is not Russian. I can't install the same Cyrillic program ,I tried to download it from the same www.cyrillic com,but it doesn't work.I can't switch on PHONETIC or STUDENT kind of writing.
I've found this informations:When runnig on Windows NT,2000 or XP,Cyrillic Keyboard needs to update a certain system key in the registry.Please note that you may still use Cyrillic Keyboard in the meantime,until your network administrator makes the required changes.The only real limitation is that you will not be able to type with the Unicode character setCharSets;you will have to use Code Page 1251 or KOI8 instead.
Due to the way Windows NT,2000,and XP are designed,Cyrillic Keyboard must be able to create temporary subkeys of the following registry key while it is running:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts
.......than follows the instruction  how to do it.
I've followed all  - point by point.BUT MY RUSSIAN KEYBOARD doesn't work.
Who can help me .And how do You use (those who have XP) Russian keyboard.
Thanks.
Katarina

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