Hi nostalgia. :wave:

Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried a different keyboard?

If not, maybe SFC would cure it.

 

Not a stupid question at all. But I'm using my laptop, so I can't try another keyboard. (I think?)
And what's SFC exactly? (That probably is a stupid question.)

 

Anyone?

 

Try troubleshoot under keyboard in control panel. If this doesnt solve your problem

 

I have a similar problem. I must have accidentally changed a keyboard setting before turning off my computer and now when I enter my windows password to boot up windows, I can't. I have a ~ in my password, but I only get the double `` when I hit shift+` instead of a ~. ....at least I think it is a `` because it only shows two dots for a password. Help anyone?!

 

Maybe something has gone corrupt with the keyboard layout. Why don't you change the keyboard layout to regular US english, reboot, change it back to US international, reboot and then try again?

 

I have the same problem. It's even a bit more serious for those of us who use a language in which we actually need to type accents.

I have three languages set up in Vista: English (US), Dutch (NL) and Portuguese (BR). All have the keyboard 'US International' attached. What should happen in US International, is that typing an accent and then a letter, is for them to join together. So ~ and a becomes ã, and ' with a space becomes a generic accent (as used in: I'll). But what is does now, is make ~~a or I''ll. As the original poster said, it simply doubles the character, which of course is good for nothing.

It seems to be a bug, unrelated to the language or keyboard settings. It just shows the problem in whatever language I have my Windows keyboard settings when I boot it. If it is English, than English is unusable for the entire session. I need to switch to Dutch or Portuguese, and the US International keyboard works fine. If I boot my computer with the keyboard settings set to Portuguese, then I need to switch to Dutch or English to get a proper US International keyboard.

Seems like this bug didn't exist until Vista SP2.

In any case, for you a temporary trick could be to install more than one language (e.g. English (US) and English (Trinidad, or maybe even GB)). After booting, use the language bar to switch for one language to the other, and the US International keyboard works fine. Until you reboot, of course, then you switch to the other language.

Also, please remember that - confusingly - you can find your keyboard settings in both Vista and XP not under 'keyboard', where you would expect them, but under 'Regional and Language Options' in the Control Panel.

Let's hope Microsoft fixes this shortly!