"Quote" Mark Button on Keyboard Acting Up

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yarm

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Hi,

I bought my Logitech Elite Keyboard several years ago and it's been working perfectly ever since. Just recently I've had one minor, but annoying issue. Whenever I press the ' button, I have to either: (a) type the next letter; (b) press space; or (c) press the ' button again in order for the ' or " to show up. It will show up with '' or "" when I press it twice, but it won't show the first mark until I hit the button a second time. I really don't mind this during regular computer usage, but it's become incredibly annoying when I'm writing papers for school.

Things I've tried:
(1) took off USB to PS/2 adapter and plugged it directly into a USB port (although, it has worked fine for the past several years with the adapter)
(2) uninstalled keyboard drivers
(3) reinstalled keyboard drivers

I haven't had any luck. Any thoughts?

Thanks!
 
That's easy. You have the international keyboard layout. If you type ' and a vowel, you will get an accented vowel.
 
Check in the keyboard layout in the control panel of windows it is not set to the wrong type of keyboard for some reason. Make sure it says you keyboard is set to US-English.
 
I hate those USB to PS/2 adapters... I get maybe in your case you were doing that to free up a USB port? Lesser techs use them where I work when there are 4 available USB ports on every PC and not a single thing in one of them.

/off topic rant
 
dogbert_2001 said:
That's easy. You have the international keyboard layout. If you type ' and a vowel, you will get an accented vowel.
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You win. Thanks. Apparently, the "special" version of winxp I have was set to English (United States) - United States-International and not English (United States) - US. What's strange is that I tried changing this in the past, but it took a reboot for the ' key to actually work properly again (even though it didn't ask for one).

Anyway, thanks. Now I don't have to buy a new keyboard.

Grimmda said:
I hate those USB to PS/2 adapters... I get maybe in your case you were doing that to free up a USB port? Lesser techs use them where I work when there are 4 available USB ports on every PC and not a single thing in one of them.

/off topic rant
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Yeah, I have an old school Shuttle PC that has only two ports in the back. There are two in the front, but it bothers me having things plugged into the front at all times.
 
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