My windows keyboard is being "clever" with the quote keys - how can I stop it?
Problem
I'm using windows 7 on a laptop. On the laptop keyboard, for some reason, the quote key (which has both double and single quote on it) is doing some "clever" annoying things: When I press single-quote (or double-quote), windows doesn't send any characters until I press it twice (resulting in or ) When I press it before a vowel, I get some kind of accented character. As I usually only write English, this is annoying. The backtick/tilde key is subject to similar behaviour. This is not a duplicate of the linked question because the two problems have completely different solutions. This question was caused by an internationalisation setting being activated; that other question was caused by keys being set to dead. I have not attempted to set up my computer to process anything other than English. My keyboard appears to be (in so far as these things are standard on laptops) a standard US qwerty keyboard. How can I stop this happening?
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Fix for: My windows keyboard is being "clever" with the quote keys - how can I stop it?
I would first make sure that your "input method" settings is set to "US" (and definitely not "United States-International"). You can do this through the Control Panel. A restart may be required. For Windows 7: Open Control Panel Click on Clock, Language, and Region, and then Region and Language. Click the Keyboards and Languages tab, and then click Change keyboards. Under Installed services, click Add. Double-click the language you want to add, double-click Keyboard, select the text services op…
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