What key am I stroking to cause thisÉ

That was supposed to be a question mark in the title. Windows 8, and every now and then it pitches a fit and starts speaking Spanish. ÉÙO¨ etc. I presume Ièm accidentally hitting two keys, but canèt figure out which. Restart, and its fine.

Looks like Ctrl-Shift is the culprit:

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Being in Canada, when I install Windows it sets up the potential for a Canadian keyboard. This allows me to type English or French.

I found that somehow in my super-fast two-fingered typing, I did some kind of key stroke that switched the keyboard to French.

The fix was to disable the multilingual keyboard.

My guess is you have the same, but being in the states, it's English and Spanish.

SkinnyG wrote: Being in Canada, when I install Windows it sets up the potential for a Canadian keyboard. This allows me to type English or French. I found that somehow in my super-fast two-fingered typing, I did some kind of key stroke that switched the keyboard to French. The fix was to disable the multilingual keyboard. My guess is you have the same, but being in the states, it's English and Spanish.

This ^^^^

Go into the Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region > Change keyboards and other input methods

Click the Change Keyboards button. Delete the French Canadian Keyboard. You don't need it.

Another example of Microsoft "helping you out."

/? Control shift it is. Sure explains why it was so easy to do. Now to see about disabling the feature. ???- Look- Question marks!

Hoodpins wrote: Go into the Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region > Change keyboards and other input methods Click the Change Keyboards button. Delete the French Canadian Keyboard. You don't need it.

^^^ This.

Delete anything that isn't 'Murican.

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