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HP Help - Latest answer on Oct 21, 2012 11:25AM

Hello,
I have an HP Pavillion dv9000 and I have somehow activated the French keyboard and I do not know how to return it to English. Help please.

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Brian V Jan 10, 2010 11:48PM

I figured out why this goes on so frequently. There’s a keyboard combination that switches languages. Mine was set to Ctrl-Alt which gets hit occasionally. There’s two ways to turn it off

1. Near the bottom right of the screen is an icon of a keyboard. Left click and select US keyboard if it’s set to French. This turns it off but it doesn’t prevent it from getting switched again.

2. The permanent fix is to disable the key combination. There’s two ways to do this. Right click on the keyboard icon and left click Settings. Select the “Advanced Key Settings” tab. Click the “Change Key Sequence” button and select “not assigned”. Click OK a few times and you’re done.

If you cannot locate the keyboard icon you can get at this through the control panel. Go to Regional and Language control panel. Select the keyboards and languages tab and click the change keyboards button. This takes you to the language settings described in step 2 above.

ADDICT4BINGO - Oct 9, 2009 10:14PM

That worked just perfect, thank you very much

anglerman - Nov 6, 2009 03:02PM

The Shift+Ctrl+Alt +Up arrow switches the keyboard form English to French.

But how do I go in reverse, from French to English?

Thanks

kevinman4404 - Nov 30, 2009 03:36AM

shit ctrl alt down

kevinman4404 - Dec 2, 2009 02:45AM

well, I actually think that does the same thing, and it is also rather finicky. It worked the first time, it came back on, and wouldn't work when I tried it the second time

syaoran › kevinman4404 - Dec 8, 2009 09:57PM

Yay thx it works finally got rid of that stupid glitch -_-
i mean french keyboard.. it turns on by itself somehow so much i think there is a different combination of keys too cuz i nvr press shift cntrl alt and up together...
oh btw you have to hold it fora few seconds for it to work

syaoran › kevinman4404 - Dec 8, 2009 10:23PM

nevermind... that's not the solution
u just need to go to the language bar and change your keyboard back to english =_=
oh wow it's like switching different languages..
shift alt or shift ctrl

cricket - Dec 24, 2009 02:09PM

shift ctrl worked great! Thanks!

nsolo › anglerman - Dec 3, 2009 04:46AM

would some one help tell me how to change my keyboard from french keyboard to english

albertagal - Jan 24, 2010 07:40PM

Thanks for the tip, I've been frustrated by this many times! Appreciate the help.

d-chan - Mar 2, 2010 07:17AM

Hi there,

I just got out of this problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite A-100 and have the keyboard set for Canadian multi language. It kept switching to French, and my question mark looked like this. É after some searching I found an easy fix. Alt + Ctrl this puts my question mark back to this. ? All other keys affected are changed at that time as well. Yahoo! I am a happy camper!

ajl - Mar 28, 2010 10:47PM

This rocks. thanks so much for the time and effort to post this. I fixed it temporarily at least 3 times in the last year and now it is gone for EVAH!

kakers - Apr 17, 2010 10:59PM

Thanks!! Wow that was the worst!! I have an HP laptop that I scored for $25 at beezid.com and I love it1 blu ray player and all. Beautiful item, but the stupid french keys kept kicking in. Thanks so much for this post!

US tax - Apr 18, 2010 09:16PM

Alt + Control = switch

kiki - Apr 25, 2010 07:01PM

thankssss soooooo mucchhhhhhhhhh =)

cutiepie - Apr 25, 2010 09:43PM

This helped me so much, thank you for being so cool and smart.

annie - Apr 28, 2010 07:24PM

Awesome!!! Thank you!! :)

robf - May 18, 2010 05:27PM

thanks so much. very clear and concise.

oh my - Jun 10, 2010 11:49AM

I did every thing that you said but nothing changed !! I even deleted the french language option, which is something that i read to do in a previous fourm.

Donna - Jun 11, 2010 01:58PM

You are awesome. I have been having this issue since I bought my laptop! Hopefully its fixed now!

Rainbow - Jun 14, 2010 08:05PM

I just fixed my compu! Thanx!

veronica - Jun 28, 2010 03:21PM

thank u brian v i was like omg ur kiddin me rite but thx so much

Leslie - Jul 5, 2010 04:44PM

OMG! You don't know how many buttons and combinations I have hit to make this thing go away. Sometimes it worked but I never knew why. AND it always came back. You are my hero.
(I guess I ask a lot of questions because it nearly drove me nuts.)

dvs1981 - Oct 21, 2012 11:25AM

So simple and eloquent. Thank you, it took 3 hours of sifting through crap on the internet to actually find the correct answer. Much appreciated.

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Adirya Kiratas Apr 7, 2010 09:22PM

i hav a toshiba. Ctrl + Shift will undo the French keys, or reset it.

pandrama - Jun 25, 2010 01:02PM

:) that worked , tks :)

cat - Oct 15, 2012 02:01AM

that worked for me to thanks :D

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frustrated with french keyboard option Jul 3, 2009 12:02PM

i had the same problem.
hit a combination of shift + alt + ctrl and the Up button. takes a couple of combo tries, but usually works.

Merrikate - Jan 11, 2010 05:38PM

THANKS! This works great.

Anon - Mar 7, 2010 09:38AM

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Years, and now minutes, of frustration solved. Ctrl+Alt+Shift worked!! Woohoo!

Kinkajou - May 31, 2010 02:12AM

thank you both ways work but because my HP is so messed up the Shift+Alt+Ctrl+Up button worked better

nate dogg - Jul 2, 2010 12:47PM

amazing!

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darryl Jun 28, 2010 12:19PM

So annoying!!!!!!!!!! It also depends when you did it. If youère in a firefox window when you hit the key combo, or in word, or with none of those open, etc. Every time I think I have it figured out, I hit the combo and have to find yet another way to solve it. I canèt keep doing this!!!èèèèè

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Woot Woot!! Mar 10, 2010 11:39PM

thanks Brian V!!!!!!! what a life saver!

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JN Oct 18, 2012 07:52PM

In Windows 7, go to Control Panel, "Clock, Language, Region", "Change Keyboards or Other Input Methods", "Change Keyboards", and "Advanced Key Settings". There it tells you the hot keys that are set to change between languages for your computer, so that you A. know what not to press when you don't want to, and B. can turn off the hot keys altogether if you like, or C. change to a different language besides French that you may use. Mine were Left Alt and Shift.

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