How do i turn off the french keyboard option? I

Check your regional setting in your control panel. Under default Language Check your Keyboard and make sure US is set as default.

For Windows XP: Check the Regional and Language Options panel in your Control Panels (Languages tab, then Details) to make sure that your keyboard is set for English:Keyboard:US. If it isn't, change it to that.

Start / Settings / Control Panel / Regional and language options, check you have the language you want in there, then remove the additional (French) language.

This assumes you're running Windows XP. Vista or Windows 7 will be similar.

CLICK CTRL and SHIFT at the same time, sometimes you may have to do it twice.

Press shift+Crtl a few times until you get it back =)

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

Press Ctrl+Shift at the same time. Toggles the French (blue) keys on & off. I found out after much tedious searching. Hope this helps you!

Hi guys,

I see a couple people are having the same problem. This is a problem we see often in Canada due to the bi-lingual nature of the country.

Depending on where in the world you are located these instructions will vary slightly, but you can figure out which country you live in and what language options you see available on your keyboard.

Sandy has given some good general advice, thank you Sandy. However, my living in a region with this issue I think I can top Sandy's solution off with a bit more advice. The problem is if you live in an area with one or more dialects of the same language(Arabic, Chinese and English being of note) there are several correct options to pick for your keyboard. I will use canadian computers as an example.

Quite often when customers buy a PC from me they go home and upon turning them on answer the location questions as Location: Canada, Language English(Canada), Keyboard: English(Canadian Multi Lingual, Canadian French or Canadian English) not realizing there is no Canadian Keyboard design for strictly English, they all have some variant of French Accents embedded. The proper answer to the last question(unless it actually is a multi ligual or french keyboard) is US English as that is the keyboard 90% of Canadians use.

Both of you seem to have the same problem, wrong keyboard setting.

To change the setting, go into the Start Menu, Open Control Panel(may be inside settings menu in XP), then switch to Classic Mode using the link in the top left corner if you don't have more than 12 icons present.

Once you have the full list showing, click on Regional Settings or Regoinal and Language Options.

When this window opens, Select the Languages Tab(XP) or Keyboards & Input Devices tab(Vista).

There will be a button (Details in XP) that allows you to see the installed Keyboards. Once the Keyboards window opens, Ensure your Keyboard(US, UK, CAD) is installed, if it's not on the list, click Add and find it on the list, then click OK.

Once you are sure your keyboard is installed, remove all other Keyboards by selecting them then clicking Remove.

When the proper keyboard is the only one left, Click Ok on that window and on the Regional menu.

This should resolve your issues unless of course you accidentally select the Farsi Keyboard in which case you can redo the above steps to resolve the problem.

Hope this helps FixYa,

Chris

You turned on Verr. Maj. by hitting [ctrl] [shift]. Hit it again once or twice to turn it off. Normal = ?, then [ctrl] [shift] =