Help request: keyboard issues with " ' symbols

Small help request from anyone who's in the know:

I have a Microsoft Basic 1.0 keyboard on my computer in my store and on my desktop at home. Since installing them on XP (with no region/keyboard changes on XP - I am in Australia using a US-English keyboard), quotation marks (single and double) need to be hit twice to work. If I hit the quotation mark key before the leter "o" I get ö, which I assume is to make the lives of multi-lingual users easy. Similarly, it happens on other letters as well.

Any idea how I can get this turned off/back to normal?

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Thanks!

Daniel.

Hm. my first look would be for settings in the Language bar on the left side of your task bar. (If it is not there go to the "Control Panel", "Regional and Language Options", then under the tab "Languages" click the button "Details")
There you have "Text Services and Input Languages" hopefully with the US Keyboard (NOT US-International!) as default in the "Installed services". If not, add it there. There is also an "Advanced" tab, where you can turn off some advanced text services. I am not sure if they could cause your troubles, but I would make sure that they don't.

Edit: Found a document how to switch it on, so it should help you to switch it off again: http://www.stellimare.com/articles/I...Characters.pdf It seems that you indeed have have "United States International" Keyboard setting instead of the "US" one.

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Thanks!

Daniel.

fine

In the future, another trick is to go to Regional Settings, and get to "Change Keyboards"...if you try to "Add" a new keyboard language, it will let you preview the keyboard layout before you choose it. So, you can actually see the keyboard layout you'll be using if you select that region/language.