Can you explain more what you are trying to achieve.
As your status flag indicates you are in the US I would suspect you are trying to use the laptop keyboard to play the VST Synths in Music Maker.
Unfortunately the US keyboard layout is different to the European/UK standard.
You can try changing your keyboard setting by selecting Control Panel, Region and Language, Keyboards and Languages and setting the keyboard to UK and see if this works.
I am assuming your are using Windows 7 other versions of Windows have similar options. You will also find that some of the keys will produce their opposite characters eg the hash key will give you a " and vice versa (IIRC)