I figured out why this goes on so frequently. There’s a keyboard combination that switches languages. Mine was set to Ctrl-Alt which gets hit occasionally. There’s two ways to turn it off
1. Near the bottom right of the screen is an icon of a keyboard. Left click and select US keyboard if it’s set to French. This turns it off but it doesn’t prevent it from getting switched again.
2. The permanent fix is to disable the key combination. There’s two ways to do this. Right click on the keyboard icon and left click Settings. Select the “Advanced Key Settings” tab. Click the “Change Key Sequence” button and select “not assigned”. Click OK a few times and you’re done.
If you cannot locate the keyboard icon you can get at this through the control panel. Go to Regional and Language control panel. Select the keyboards and languages tab and click the change keyboards button. This takes you to the language settings described in step 2 above.
well, I actually think that does the same thing, and it is also rather finicky. It worked the first time, it came back on, and wouldn't work when I tried it the second time
Yay thx it works finally got rid of that stupid glitch -_-
i mean french keyboard.. it turns on by itself somehow so much I think there is a different combination of keys too cuz I nvr press shift cntrl alt and up together...
oh btw you have to hold it fora few seconds for it to work
nevermind... that's not the solution
u just need to go to the language bar and change your keyboard back to english =_=
oh wow it's like switching different languages..
shift alt or shift ctrl
I just got out of this problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite A-100 and have the keyboard set for Canadian multi language. It kept switching to French, and my question mark looked like this. É after some searching I found an easy fix. Alt + Ctrl this puts my question mark back to this. ? All other keys affected are changed at that time as well. Yahoo! I am a happy camper!
Thanks!! Wow that was the worst!! I have an HP laptop that I scored for $25 at beezid.com and I love it1 blu ray player and all. Beautiful item, but the stupid french keys kept kicking in. Thanks so much for this post!
I did every thing that you said but nothing changed !! I even deleted the french language option, which is something that I read to do in a previous fourm.
OMG! You don't know how many buttons and combinations I have hit to make this thing go away. Sometimes it worked but I never knew why. AND it always came back. You are my hero.
(I guess I ask a lot of questions because it nearly drove me nuts.)
So annoying!!!!!!!!!! It also depends when you did it. If youère in a firefox window when you hit the key combo, or in word, or with none of those open, etc. Every time I think I have it figured out, I hit the combo and have to find yet another way to solve it. I canèt keep doing this!!!èèèèè
In Windows 7, go to Control Panel, "Clock, Language, Region", "Change Keyboards or Other Input Methods", "Change Keyboards", and "Advanced Key Settings". There it tells you the hot keys that are set to change between languages for your computer, so that you A. know what not to press when you don't want to, and B. can turn off the hot keys altogether if you like, or C. change to a different language besides French that you may use. Mine were Left Alt and Shift.
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(I guess I ask a lot of questions because it nearly drove me nuts.)