If punctuation marks change when you hit the shift-ctrl combination, you 
might be toggling through the keyboard settings for different languages.

I have my computer set to toggle between English and Spanish. when I set 
that up, I had a couple of options for the keyboard hot key. I think one was 
left shift+left alt and another was shift+alt (no reference to left or 
right). I seem to remember that the third option involved the ctrl and shift 
keys, but I can't swear on a stack of bibles. I don't have any trouble using 
the shift+alt keys in combination with something else when in English mode, 
and when in Spanish mode, I need to remember to use the left shift and left 
alt for combinations that call for both of those keys plus something else. 
The key is to press the keys at the same time.

I can't help you with Vista because I'm still running XP, but I'm thinking 
you might want to go into the languages settings to check whether you've got 
other languages (maybe French and Spanish) installed automatically. You 
might want to turn them off or set up a different hot key. 


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