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i just bought a microsoft wireless keyboard and the question mark and coma are both È how do i swap it back to the english version of the keyboard. its driving me insane not being able to use question marks.

thanks

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Member Avatar for Stepside

People give the wrong advice to this problem all the time. This is how you fix it...you ready?

PRESS SHIFT AND CONTROL AT THE SAME TIME.
Fixed. :)

commented: Great - Thanks for posting it +0
commented: Thank-you!!! +0
Member Avatar for sn0limits

AWSOME!! thank you!

Member Avatar for dastur

Works Great

Member Avatar for jephthah

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LOL WUT?

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Member Avatar for HommeVert

french haters
you live in Canada, the official language is french, relax!
just press shirt and 6 at the same time. I got used to it!
Vive le Français!

commented: thanks french haters ??? +0
Member Avatar for fatbuns

homme vert, thank you so freaking much! i was in the middle of writing something, and since i was used to using my english keyboard, at school i always press the thing but it gives the é by just pressing it like normally. thank u so very much :)

Member Avatar for flameing earwig

Hehe mine is wacked to and all i do is press shift and 6 its qiute simple!

Member Avatar for careertarget

You may also press ctrl+shift+shift. This works for my Dell laptop.

Member Avatar for Reverend Jim

I had the same problem with my Dell. There was a (default) hotkey combo set when I installed Windows 7. I disabled it by going to

Control Panel -> Region and Language -> Keyboards and Languages

click on Change Keyboards...

select the Advanced Key Settings tab

You can set or disable the hotkeys here.

Member Avatar for eniemeenie

ctrl + shift do not voooorkkk :@

Member Avatar for Bobbydfdfdf

Merci beaucoup kind sir. This is much appreciated. By the way, I needed to press LSHIFT+RSHIFT+LCTRL.

Member Avatar for special_kae420

I had to press left shit+right shift+left control +right control for my Compaq! Wow what a pain that was! I was in the dark on how to fix it for a long time!

Member Avatar for Dani

You Canadians are weird :-P

Member Avatar for spacehindu

@ Stepside, YOU ARE A GENIUS!

Member Avatar for kcocon

noo eniemeenie... you just press ctrl + shift... then press shift + the button that bears the "?"

Member Avatar for Lyann

I am trying to fix this same issue you had in the past- with the french e instead of the question mark - I always get the fix mixed up!

Member Avatar for Samuel de Champ

thanks i had the problem and now it is fiked

Member Avatar for MaureenR

Press (but don't hold) the left shift and left ctrl buttons at the same time

Member Avatar for m3gan

Alt + shift works. Ctrl+ Shift has NEVER worked for me. I have a logitech keyboard, and I don't know if that matters or not, but Alt+Shift always works for me....

Member Avatar for hank9999

Thanks Stepside, I can't tell you how many links I looked at and how many suggestions I tried before your most simple solution. Thank you, thank you!! So simple - also very easy to accidentally hit that key combination and turn it back on:(

Member Avatar for notfurlong

Control+shift did't work for me either but control+shift+shift did.

Member Avatar for notfurlong

control+shift+shift worked for my Dell desktop.

Member Avatar for jackroped

thanks guys

well i just tried the lshift+lcntrl and it worked...

dell inspiron - canada

Member Avatar for Vaani_1

thx Stepside! Worked for mine! THX again!

Member Avatar for Stepside

No worries! Can't believe I posted this 4 years ago lol

Member Avatar for Sue_1

Switching keyboard back to English. Use same steps to switch back to French.
1. Press- Shift key
2. While still holding down Shift - Press down on Ctrl key-Hold both keys down together, for less then a second.
3.Now release both Shift & Ctrl at the same time.
4 Press down on Shift Key only once again & Release.

Member Avatar for Mahnaz_2

Than you Stepside, Your reply still is useful after 6 years. It fixed my problem.

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