How change french keyboard back to english keyboard (Vista)

Hello you can read more about that here:

http://www.ehow.com/how_6785623_switch-keyboard-back-english.html

Hi, if you're getting an e with an accent on it when you try to type a question mark, you may have the French keyboard layout selected. To change it back to the English layout, follow these steps:
In Windows Vista/7: 1) Click the Start button and click Control Panel
2) Underneath Clock, Language and Region, click Change keyboards or other input methods
3) Click the Change Keyboards button
4) Under Default input language, make sure English is selected. In the Installed Services box, delete any languages you do not need by selecting them and clicking the Remove button. Make sure you don't delete US!

Start / Settings / Control Panel / Regional and language options, check you have the language you want in there, then remove the additional (French) language.

This assumes you're running Windows XP. Vista or Windows 7 will be similar.

if you have windows XP follow these steps :-right click on Taskbar-Toolsbar-here check the language bar(should apear in your case french) -right click on the Fr(that apear)-settings -here you will see French keyboard-click Add and select EN-english -than OK and your keyboard should type english letters/

Okay... Start > Control Pannel > Regional Options > Keyboard Layout > Select English US or English UK reboot.
If it does not solve it tell me.
-Tom.

Hi,
Change your regional options to english,
US english depending where you are.
start, control panel (classic view), regional languages, keyboard and languages tab, change keyboards, click add tab, select language,click the plus sign, tick the keyboard box,
( you can have more than one )
The one at the top is the primary language set.
So, set main language at top, all others under.

To select the language bar on screen, so you can swtch between them,
go to, regional languages again, keyboards and languages, change keyboard, langage bar tab, in here is a few settings for you to put on taskbar,

Hope this helps
Regards
Ric.

Hi Sam,

Sorry your problem got left in the que for a while, but Lee apparently wasn't familiar with that keyboard. You do have an extra key near the start button that activates the Tags and other coloured symbols while in french or multi language mode. Simply use it like a shift key.

If you're not using the HP to type in french and don't require the accents you can change the setting in windows to tell the computer that your keyboard is a US english keyboard which will reassign all the keycodes to the "normal" locations by english speaking standards.

To do so, open your control panel, click on the classic mode link if it's not already in classic mode(20+ icons). Then click on the regional settings icon. Depending on wether you have Vista or XP the panel varies slightly XP has a keyboards tab, Vista has a Input Devices tab. Either way go to that tab and click the button to adjust input devices, on the page that pops up you will see a list of available, installed keyboards. If US english isn't listed click the ADD button find it in the list and add it.

If you only type in english, remove all other keyboards. If you use french as well, remove all but the canadian french/canadian multilingual depending which you have(if you don't know follow instructions below to find out). Then OK out of the window. OK the regional settings window and close the control panel. If you only select US english you're done, if you left French as an option you will see a small blue icon to the left of the clock, you can click on it at any time to switch between your installed keyboard modes.


Hope this Helps FixYa!


Chris


Model info for your product can be found at www.hp.com click Support & Drivers, then select the Knowledgebase button on the next screen and type in your full model number or allow the automated link to check your model online. When it launches your product page select Product Specifications from the long list in the middle and if it brings up a second list select the same.

You can now scroll down the specs and your keyboard will be listed as either Canadian English/French/Multiligual, all three have some variation of the keys you described.

Unless you have Vista Ultimate or Enterprise, you'd have to
purchase and install an French version of Vista. MUI (Multilingual
User Interface) packs are only available in Windows Vista Ultimate and
Windows Vista Enterprise.
International keyboard (Windows Vista)

1. Open your Control Panel
2. If in Classic View, click Control Panel Home in upper-left corner
3. Under Clock, Language, and Region, click Change keyboards or other input methods
4. Click Change keyboards
5. Click Add
6. Scroll down to English (United States)
7. If you don't see a list including United States-international, click + to expand
8. Choose United States-International
9. Click OK in each dialog window.
10. Read Using the international keyboard (above) and, if necessary, Troubleshooting the international keyboard (below).

See this info on this link:
http://french.about.com/library/bl_faq_accents.htm

Joyeux Noel!

Click on this link or copy and paste the complete link into your browser.
If I could be of further assistance, let me know. If this helps or solves the issue, please rate it.
Thanks, Joe


I’m happy to assist further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/joe_8b8c2cd6ce148309

Open Regional and Language Options by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Clock, Language, and Region, and then clicking Regional and Language Option

Click the Keyboards and Languages tab.

Under Display language, choose a language from the list, and then click OK.

(If you don't see the list of display languages, you need to install additional language files first. You do this from the Vista Install CD.)

Cheers
Nick

Hello
You cant change your language on your laptop true control panel, you need to reformat your laptop in the English language. the options in control panel is just for your regional settings and keyboard settings and so on.

only OS that you can change language in is the Vista Ultimate and then you need to install a language pack.