how do i change the keyboard to standard .. [solved]

[vhelp]

solved, see post # 3

Hi, I have a dell inspiron windows 7 64bit home premium laptop and I want to finally change the keyboard layout to the usual one we all use.

When I want to enter a quotation mark " or the ` and ' chars, I have to hit those keys twice. If I hit them once, the char does not appear, and if i hit a second key, any key, then its (for lack of correct term) referenced key code shows up instead.

here are some examples for the " char, if I hit that key, followed by another key:

"j ï "c ö ä Ä "7 and so on.

here are some examples for the ' char, if I hit that key, followed by another key:

ú á Á and so on.

[aedipuss]

control panel/region and languages/keyboards and languages is where i would look

[vhelp]

Solved..

That was it, aedipuss..

in Control panel:

1. click on "Click, Languages, and Region" 

2. Region and Language
   (Change the date, time, or number format) 

3. select the [Keyboards and Languages] tab

4. click the [Change keyboards...] button

5. and finally, in the drop-down, change from 
[English (United States) - United States-International]
   to
[English (United States) - US]

6. select [Apply] and [OK] buttons

7. click [OK] button.

8. finished

Five years of having to deal with this.. no more, Pfew! Thank you!

EDIT: while it did work in notepad.exe, it would not work in other apps. But through trail and error, I had to install the "English (Canada)" layout (below) and then select that as the primary. Then it worked in anything-everything.