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How to disable auto pairing of quotes

My Windows 7 installation automatically tries to pair quotes and does a very poor job. For example, when I press the quote key before a word nothing happens, but when I move the cursor to the end of the word and press the quote key again, both quotes are inserted after the word. Basically I am unable to insert one quote and it's super annoying.

It is a windows functionality, because it happens in all programs.

How do I disable it?

Solution

  • The problem is in the installed keyboard (windows input service).

    1. In your Control Panel > Region and Language > Keyboards and Languages you'll most likely find US Keyboard - International, which is an input service that has the ugly autocomplete feature.
    2. Add a new keyboard English - US (or Serbian or any other you like) and make it the default keyboard (in the drop down list above).
    3. Remove the "buggy" keyboard.
    4. Voila!

    Hope this works for you!