What's wrong with my quotation mark keyboard button?

On my new computer when I Press shift " quotation button" nothing happens
until I type any other character and then the quotation mark appears.
Pressing the quotation mark button on occasion invokes an new characters
that don't exist in the English language. I checked settings in control
panel for keyboard and Regional and language setting. Everything is on
the default setting as when I bought the computer (English settings).
That is the only keyboard button that acts up. thanks for your help.

 

New keyboard = $9-25 U.S. Having said that, pop the inch mark key off
(to split hairs, that's not a quote mark next to the Enter key) and see
if you can clean it. Probably won't help, doubt it would hurt.

 

Disable the "dead keys" feature.

 

I think he's got "dead keys" on. That he claims it only happens with
quotation marks implies that he just hasn't run across the other keys
that this feature momentarily disrupts, like the tilde and the caret.

Since he's an OE user, he probably doesn't even know those names.

 

You are right, it also happens with the ~tilde button. How do I turn off
the deadkey? I looked in control panel keyboard settings. It is set to
standard 101/102 Microsoft natural keyboard, My actual keyboard that I am
using is a standard Dell keyboard.

 

Never used them myself. I know you're a penguinhead, but how does a
Windows user disable dead keys? Almost everything on Google refers to
Linux or Mac.

 

Defective keyboard!

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JANA
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On my new computer when I Press shift " quotation button" nothing happens
until I type any other character and then the quotation mark appears.
Pressing the quotation mark button on occasion invokes an new characters
that don't exist in the English language. I checked settings in control
panel for keyboard and Regional and language setting. Everything is on
the default setting as when I bought the computer (English settings).
That is the only keyboard button that acts up. thanks for your help.

 

I found it on the web.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/spanport/keyboard.html#xp

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

 

Wrong again.

 

Don't remember, but someone else came up with this, if you missed it:

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/spanport/keyboard.html#xp

Instructions for Win apps and Win flavors both -- scroll down for XP.

 

FFS Jana, why not think before posting.

 

Must be getting paid by the post, not by the solution.

 

He reminds me of (dare I say it?) - RtS.

 

Oh, my.

RtS has disappeared from one group of groups I do. I haven't wanted to
kill the charm by mentioning it *there*, but...