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[Gene45]

Netbook Aspire one D260 The keyborad keys are not what they say they are . For example a "?" produces a "capital E with a French Acute accent". Without the shift it produces a "lower case e with the same accent" instead of a "/". I can make the '?' and '/' her as I am using a differnet machine with a different keyboard. Question is how to get back to a regular keyboard. I twas set through "control panel" as Canada English, which should be correct. I changed it to US English , and apparently that works. What to do? How does one get to use the ? and /with the Canada keyboard . i.e how to turn off the blue symbols?

[Alan-London]

You appear to have French set as your language.

Check your 'Region and Language' in the control panel.

Select 'keyboards and Languages' > 'Change keyboards...'

'Text Services and Input Languages' will open.

I suspect your language is shown as 'Canadian French'. (You can confirm the layout by selecting properties.)

To change, you will need to add your chosen language ('English (Canada)' > 'Keyboard' > 'US') and click OK.

Now you just need to select the incorrect keyboard and click 'Remove'. 

[Gene45]

Ok that may be the problem, but out of curiosity, how doesa Frenchman ask a questio?????

[Vince53]

Welcome aboard, Gene. You can use Google Translate to ask questions in English.

I took two years of high school French, but I love France despite that.

By the way, it is possible that your laptop keyboard will not support certain languages offered by Windows. I have to deal with donated American keyboards at the orphanage I volunteer at in Mexico that have certain keys that we can't get right.

[Gene45]

I don't speak French, since I too took two year so it in high school, and i hindsight it was completely useless. Shoudl ahve taken more math. My question is about the keyboard, If I have it set for French, how can I use a question mark. ??

[Alan-London]

On a French (Canadian) keyboard, the '?' is shift '6'.
On a French (France) keyboard, it is shift ',' (to the right of 'N').