Malke,
That problem has been bugging me for several years now and we have just been
putting up with it.
You were exactly right my keyboard localisation was set to 'US
(International)'. When I changed it to 'US' the problem went away and
everything is fine. I'd don't know how much time over the years I've spent
trying to fix that little glitch and you've done it in seconds. Can't thank
you enough.
Insp Gadget
"Malke" <malke.RemoveThis@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Insp Gadget wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Any assistance with this strange glitch would be greatly appreciated. No
>> matter what keyboard I attach my Windows XP (Home) computer I have to
>> press another key after pressing the inverted comma key to get the
>> inverted comma to show up on the screen. The key works fine while in the
>> BIOS screen or using a start up disk to get to MSDOS, but not in WinXP
>> and
>> nothing changes no matter what I do with keyboard device drivers (mind
>> you, mostly my keyboards don't need any special drivers loaded). I can't
>> get rid of this strange annoying glitch.
>>
>> What I suspect is that some basic keyboard driver is corrupt in my
>> install. I have installed windows several times and the issue remains.
>> This leads me to think that the corrupt file (if this is the problem)
>> must
>> be on the original CD. But I have no idea where to get an "uncorrupted"
>> copy of this file and how to update it. Any suggestions regarding this
>> glitch?
>
> It sounds as though you have the wrong keyboard localization picked,
> possibly US International instead of plain US for example. Go to the
> Region
> & Language Options applet in Control Panel and make sure you've set your
> region to where you actually live.
>
> Malke
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