How to fix unexpected foreign characters in Windows 7 By Drew Mathers | August 13, 2015 1 1. Click: Start 2 2. Click: Control Panel 3a 3a. Click: Change keyboards for other input methods (if Control Panel is set to Category view) 3b 3b. Click: Region and Language (if Control Panel is set to Icon view) 3c 3c. Click: Keyboards and Languages 4 4. Click: [Change keyboards…] 5 5. Select any keyboards other than: English (United States) 6 6. Click: [Remove] 7 7. After all keyboard except English (United States) are removed, click: [OK] 8 8. Click: [OK] Posted in Beginner
![After all keyboard except English (United States) are removed, click: [OK]](http://almost-painless.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/how-to-fix-unexpected-foreign-characters-in-windows-7-07.png "Click: [OK]")
![Click: [Change keyboards...]](http://almost-painless.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/how-to-fix-unexpected-foreign-characters-in-windows-7-04.png "Click: [Change keyboards...]")
![Click: [Remove]](http://almost-painless.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/how-to-fix-unexpected-foreign-characters-in-windows-7-06.png "Click: [Remove]")
![Click: [OK]](http://almost-painless.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/how-to-fix-unexpected-foreign-characters-in-windows-7-08.png "Click: [OK]")