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HAVE YOU EVER ended up with a situation where you’re typing away on your keyboard, and it brings up the ” symbol instead of @? Or you find that the wrong symbols are coming up and so you have to remember which button does what?
In the greater scheme of things, it’s a minor annoyance but an annoyance all the same, and the reason is down to you (accidently) switching keyboard languages on Windows.
Traditionally, there are two English language keyboards set automatically: the US version and the UK/Irish version. While the letter keys are the same, the location for symbols like £, ” and @ are different which is where the confusion emerges.
The quick way to change it is to just hit Shift + Alt, which allows you to alternate between the two keyboard languages.
But if that doesn’t work, and you’re stuck with the same problems, you’ll have to go a little deeper. Go into Control Panel > Region and Language and click on the ‘Keyboard and Languages’ tab.
Click Change Keyboards and you’ll be brought to general where the two languages are present. Click on English (United States) and hit remove.
If it happens again, or resets after you’ve completed this, then hitting Shift + Alt will revert it back to normal.
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“Ever wonder why your computer won’t turn on when not plugged in?”
But I was told it’s wireless, why should I ever need to plug it in with a wire?!?
@Mrs. S, any help with turning on my online date?
@Spilt Pint – just give him a handjob.
thats funny Mrs Shalaka
@Mrs. S., I think we have our wires crossed.. And I don’t mean me and my date!
“And I don’t mean me and my date!”
Oh matron!
@Mrs. S., don’t nurse a grudge!
“ever wondered why…..”
Nope, because Google….
if you typed the question into Google you must have been wondering why
nope – I wondered HOW to change it from yankee doodle to normal person keyboard. Not why….
Quinton. You should get a job in I.T support.
Yes, this must explain my browser history too
Streets ahead of us again Quinton. Kudos!
Since you bothered to write an article on it you could’ve at least noted UK layout and Ireland layout on Windows are NOT the same.
There key left of 1 on the Irish layout is a grave dead key combining with the vowels to make à è ì ò ù. UK layout doesn’t do that.
No one cares but since you wrote the article….
Gerard you cared emotional to post a comment.
*enough
Might want to examine YOUR keyboard next time you try to be clever…
And here’s me thinking it was those pesky Nigerians
Day 563: still waiting on my jackpot winnings in the Nigerian lottery…
Ah takes me back to the days of DOS and having the KEYBUK command in your config.sys file. But you’d have to be over 40 to even understand what I’m talking about!!
These sponsored tech guide are a waste of time. Are you a journalist or a Googler, copy\paste. Do do some actual journalism.
An entire article for this?
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