Laptop turion HP

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/258824 - I suggest you check out this article - or you can google yourself - How do I change my Keyboard Mapping? and then see what comes up.
I would appear that you have somehow setup something on those keys - e with an accent above is most likely French

How to turn on/off Wireless in various Laptop Models ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vendor/Model-----------Type----------Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dell D600 & D610-----KeyBoard-----Fn+F2

HP nc4000 & nc4010-----Button-----Above Keyboard

HP nc4220-----Button-----Left Side of Laptop Near USB Port

HP nc6000 & nc6220-----Button-----Above Keyboard

HP nx9010-----Button-----Front side of laptop

HP Omnibook 6200-----Button-----Left side of laptop

IBM T43-----Keyboard combination-----Fn + F5-----Click "Turn On"

IBM X32-----Keyboard combination-----Fn + F5-----Click "Turn On"

Toshiba M1 & M2-----Switch-----Left side of laptop-----Towards
front

Toshiba R100-----Switch-----Right side of laptop


Toshiba TE2000-----Switch-----Left side of laptop-----By Vol ctrl

Toshiba Tecra 2100-----Switch-----Left side of laptop-----By Vol ctrl

Your laptop has two memory slots. One of the memory slots (external) can be easily accessed if you remove the cover on the bottom of the laptop.

The second (internal) memory slot is located under the keyboard.

Keyboard removal procedure:
1. Unplug the AC adapter and remove the battery.
2. Remove two screws securing the keyboard on the bottom of the laptop. These screws are marked with a small keyboard symbol.
3. Release 4 keyboard retention tabs located on the left side from f1, f5, f9 and delete keys.
4. Lift up the keyboard and place it upside down on the palm rest.
5. Unlock the keyboard cable connector on the motherboard.
6. Remove and replace the keyboard.

Hope this helps. Thank you for using FixYa.

How to turn on/off Wireless in various Laptop Models ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vendor/Model-----------Type----------Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dell D600 & D610-----KeyBoard-----Fn+F2

HP nc4000 & nc4010-----Button-----Above Keyboard

HP nc4220-----Button-----Left Side of Laptop Near USB Port

HP nc6000 & nc6220-----Button-----Above Keyboard

HP nx9010-----Button-----Front side of laptop

HP Omnibook 6200-----Button-----Left side of laptop

IBM T43-----Keyboard combination-----Fn + F5-----Click "Turn On"

IBM X32-----Keyboard combination-----Fn + F5-----Click "Turn On"

Toshiba M1 & M2-----Switch-----Left side of laptop-----Towards
front

Toshiba R100-----Switch-----Right side of laptop


Toshiba TE2000-----Switch-----Left side of laptop-----By Vol ctrl

Toshiba Tecra 2100-----Switch-----Left side of laptop-----By Vol ctrl
Hope it helps !

You need to tell windows it has a french keyboard:


In the control panel, go to regional and language options.
Go to the keyboards and languages tab, click change keyboards. On the window that pops up, click on the general tab. You probably have just the us keyboard installed. Click add, then choose either english-canada or french-france, then click to add the french keyboard. Click preview to see where the accent keys will be (so you can find them). Now, select the french keyboard and click 'move up' so the french keyboard is above the us english one.

Voila!

Hope this helps. Post a comment if you get stuck.

Joe

In Control Panel, double click "Regional and Language Options". Click the Languages Tab and then the Details button. Make sure that English is selected as the Default Input Language. If French is listed as an available keyboard layout and you don't need it there, you can remove it to make sure it doesn't switch itself again.
I hope this helps. Good Luck.

Hi Sam,

Sorry your problem got left in the que for a while, but Lee apparently wasn't familiar with that keyboard. You do have an extra key near the start button that activates the Tags and other coloured symbols while in french or multi language mode. Simply use it like a shift key.

If you're not using the HP to type in french and don't require the accents you can change the setting in windows to tell the computer that your keyboard is a US english keyboard which will reassign all the keycodes to the "normal" locations by english speaking standards.

To do so, open your control panel, click on the classic mode link if it's not already in classic mode(20+ icons). Then click on the regional settings icon. Depending on wether you have Vista or XP the panel varies slightly XP has a keyboards tab, Vista has a Input Devices tab. Either way go to that tab and click the button to adjust input devices, on the page that pops up you will see a list of available, installed keyboards. If US english isn't listed click the ADD button find it in the list and add it.

If you only type in english, remove all other keyboards. If you use french as well, remove all but the canadian french/canadian multilingual depending which you have(if you don't know follow instructions below to find out). Then OK out of the window. OK the regional settings window and close the control panel. If you only select US english you're done, if you left French as an option you will see a small blue icon to the left of the clock, you can click on it at any time to switch between your installed keyboard modes.


Hope this Helps FixYa!


Chris


Model info for your product can be found at www.hp.com click Support & Drivers, then select the Knowledgebase button on the next screen and type in your full model number or allow the automated link to check your model online. When it launches your product page select Product Specifications from the long list in the middle and if it brings up a second list select the same.

You can now scroll down the specs and your keyboard will be listed as either Canadian English/French/Multiligual, all three have some variation of the keys you described.

Unless you have Vista Ultimate or Enterprise, you'd have to
purchase and install an French version of Vista. MUI (Multilingual
User Interface) packs are only available in Windows Vista Ultimate and
Windows Vista Enterprise.
International keyboard (Windows Vista)

1. Open your Control Panel
2. If in Classic View, click Control Panel Home in upper-left corner
3. Under Clock, Language, and Region, click Change keyboards or other input methods
4. Click Change keyboards
5. Click Add
6. Scroll down to English (United States)
7. If you don't see a list including United States-international, click + to expand
8. Choose United States-International
9. Click OK in each dialog window.
10. Read Using the international keyboard (above) and, if necessary, Troubleshooting the international keyboard (below).

See this info on this link:
http://french.about.com/library/bl_faq_accents.htm

Joyeux Noel!

Click on this link or copy and paste the complete link into your browser.
If I could be of further assistance, let me know. If this helps or solves the issue, please rate it.
Thanks, Joe


I’m happy to assist further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/joe_8b8c2cd6ce148309

go to start>control panel>regional settings> and make sure that all the tabs are set to english

update driver in device manager.