Neil Merton

Keyboard Layout Shortcut

Recently my keyboard layout seemed to magically switch from UK to US without me requesting it to. Or so I thought!

Windows has a very nifty shortcut sequence built into it of ‘Left Shift + Alt’ that will switch between the two available layouts.

If you find this happening to yourself and want to disable the shortcut then follow these directions:

1. Right-click on the taskbar
2. Select ‘Toolbars’
3. Select ‘Language Bar’
   (you should now have a blue indicator on your taskbar - mine says ‘EN’ indicating English)
4. Right-click on the indicator icon and select ‘Settings…’
5. At the bottom, under ‘Preferences’ click the ‘Key Settings…’ button
6. Ensure ‘Switch between input languages’ is selected and click the ‘Change Key Sequence…’ button
7. Untick the two checkboxes (these are ‘Switch input languages’ and ‘Switch keyboard layouts’)
8. Click ‘OK’
9. Click ‘OK’
10. Click ‘OK’
11. To remove the indicator from the taskbar -right-click on it and select ‘Close the language bar’.

Done.