My Quick Fix

Problem

Every so often when I’m typing, usually when I’m coding because I use so many shortcuts, the at sign ‘@’ and double quotes (“) get swapped. Annoying!

Solution

When this happens it’s because I’ve accidentally pressed ‘Shift + Alt’. THis key combo causes Windows to switch my keyboard (input) language to US. The easiest way to stop this happening, is disable the ‘Shift+Alt’ shortcut:

1) From ‘Control Panel’, open the ‘Regional and Language Options’.

2) In ‘Regional and Language Options’ window, select the ‘Languages’ tab, and click the ‘Details’ button inside the ‘Text services and input languages’ section.

3) In the ‘Settings’ tab, click the ‘Key Settings’ button.

4) In the ‘Hot keys..’ section, highlight the action ‘Switch between input languages’ and then click the ‘Change Key Sequence’ button.

5) Un-tick BOTH tickboxes.

6) Now just ‘OK’ and ‘Apply’ your way back out of the open windows and IMPORTANT you need to reboot for the changes to make effect.

Know of a quicker way? please post a comment…