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Keyboard issues on Vista
I just formatted my laptop and installed Vista for the first time. It seems that after I have been typing in any program for a while (notepad, opera, word, anything really) the keyboard switches to possibly the French layout. This would be fine if it actually switched in the Language/Regional settings, but when I look at those settings, it is still set to English (Canada). The only way for me to fix this would be then to close the program and open it again. I even try to switch to a different keyboard layout (e.g. russian) and I can type some russian text, but as soon as I switch back to English (Canada) I am again typing the french characters.
I hope this didn't sound too confusing and I would truly appriciate any input on this!
PS: This never happened on XP.
I hope this didn't sound too confusing and I would truly appriciate any input on this!
PS: This never happened on XP.
- Well I finally figured it out! While the language does not change, the keyboard layout changes. For the English (Canada) language there are 3 available keyboards by default. Somehow, every now and then, I manage to switch from US keyboard to Canadian French. There must be some shortcut key I press by accident. So while I can use Alt+Shift to toggle between languages, there must be some other shortcut I'm accidentally pressing that switches between keyboards.Anyway, I have removed all keyboards except US, and everything is fine now. I think the reason this didn't happen in XP is because only one keyboard is setup by default.
SirBabyface
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Posted August 11th, 2008 14:00
You can disable the shortcuts from the control panel. Just search for it in the control panel. Currently I'm not in a Vista computer, so I'm not able to tell you what you should search on the control panel.
GioAguilar
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Posted January 20th, 2008 19:00