I'm not sure, but it seems I have deja-vu. When I got my hands first time on
IBM X41 tablet, it had virtual keyboard (the one you have before login and
the one popping up on tabtip press) similar in appearance with actual X41
hardware keyboard - i.e. same layout.

later, after some reinstallations and updates, keyboard changed into
something more "generic" with keys not 100% reflecting layout of actual
hardware keyboard.

Is layout and image of WinXP Tablet virtual keyboard defined somewhere and
can be changed?

Several things at play here...

I assume there are appearance differences between os', but there are
also differences depending on how the resources are set up for each
computer... for example,

mycomputer/properties/advanced/performance/visualeffects

can change the appearance of the tip keyboard dramatically.

add to that that there are two other onscreen keyboards... run/osk and
the login keyboard, also unique in appearance and change with the above
settings.

Beverly Howard