Anybody experience this, that once in awhile, letters on your keyboard, like "?/[]" etc, turn up as accented letters? I often get ? = É This is often remedied by restarting the symptomatic application, but any ideas why this happens?
Ééééééééétttt sounds liké your kéyboard is méssÉd up [/stops being stupid] Have you tried disabling sticky keys in the accessibility options (that's if Vista even has it, I've not checked)? Just thinking that it could possibly be a key modifier being stuck to on causing such happenings and may characters have CTRL+ALT+SHIFT modifiers. If sticky keys is on for what ever reason then it could be modifiers being activated. Also as always do a spyware scan, anti-virus that kind of thing as it could always possibly be some nasty piece of software in the background causing it too.
Did you get vista on disc or did you download it and burn it. Cause im at uni and part of something like the msdnaa alliance thing, i got it for free downloaded it and burnt it, and it did stupid stuff like that when i burnt the disc at 4* speed, so i had to put it slower still (1*) so it didn't mess up. Something to consider, however the keyboard seems to be more likely
Maybe it's just coincidence, but I got my copy off MSDNAA as well, though I forgot how I burned the discs. They didn't mess up though.
I'm guessing you're using a laptop; namely, IBM/Lenovo. We seem to always suddenly get this when typing, and it's disastrous during meetings and presentations
This is usually due to the language of your system. If you hit shift+alt or something like that, it will change the keyboard language. You may want to check in your languages (regional and languages settings) to either remove french (or any other language not being used) so that only english appears. This may be the case...
