How do I switch from English to French. There has to be a way of doing this from the keyboard. thanks brian

Please follow the link which i pasted below.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/258824

Alt>Shift will switch back and forth between english and french

Dear Sir,

You must have accidentally changed your comps type setting from english to 'canadian french'. at the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, there should be a small picture of a keyboard, click on that and switch back to US.


Thanks For Your Time,

This is beause, you have not selected your default keyboard as English US. Change it to either, english US or UK.

go in to start, control pannel, region and language, key boards and lay outs and select the according

if you have windows XP follow these steps :-right click on Taskbar-Toolsbar-here check the language bar(should apear in your case french) -right click on the Fr(that apear)-settings -here you will see French keyboard-click Add and select EN-english -than OK and your keyboard should type english letters/

Microsoft Windows has support for "foreign" keyboards, e.g., French, Swedish.

You've managed to hit left-ALT-SHIFT to switch the "input language" from English to French.

Use "Regional Settings" within "Control Panel" to set it back to English.

go to control panel
Then regional language option
then set english united states. then apply and ok.
If you not ablwe to read french then just set english it is upperr from current selection 5 or 6 check it.

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.

delete the French from the keyboard setup section in windows, to cycle between them there should be a little box on the task bar if it is not locked this will, if clicked, offer selection of languages you have installed to use on the computer.En will be English and Fr is French etc etc.