Solved Weird behavior when typing accents (`) and apostrophes (')

st1led

st1led

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Hello everybody!

Since a few days I'm experiencing problems when typing accents (`) and apostrophes ('). This issue seems to be non-keyboard specific, as it occurs with several keyboards that I tried. Hence, I guess it's some settings in Windows that has gone mad. The physical keyboard layouts is the standard US layout (e.g.: http://www.goodtyping.com/teclatUSok.png). In Windows, I set the keyboard layout (Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Language) to United States-International.

This layout should allow me to type special characters, as in the bottom part of this page: https://forlang.wsu.edu/help-pages/microsoft-keyboards-english-us-international/. In particular, I should be able to type cedillas and letters with acute/grave accents, as I always did til few days back. Since then, when I press the accent or apostrophe key, the keyboard immediately writes two accents or two apostrophes. This also happens with the quotation mark ("). The default behavior should be that to type a single apostrophe/accent/quotation mark, one should press the correspondent key and then the space bar.

Example: to write it's I would normally press i, press t, press ', press space, press s. This sequence outputs it''s, with a double apostrophe, that I have to manually delete. With accented letters the problem gets even worse: to type è, I would press ` and then e. If I do so, the output is (randomly?) most time ``e, some times e, ``è is also possible, and è happens if I'm really lucky.

Any ideas? I tried rebooting (of course, first thing!), uninstalling/reinstalling the keyboard drivers, changing layouts in the control panel, everything to no avail.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64
    Computer type
    Laptop

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1.1 Pro with Media Center
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Gateway
    CPU
    AMD K140 Cores 2 Threads 2 Name AMD K140 Package Socket FT1 BGA Technology 40nm
    Motherboard
    Manufacturer Gateway Model SX2110G (P0)
    Memory
    Type DDR3 Size 8192 MBytes DRAM Frequency 532.3 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics
    Sound Card
    AMD High Definition Audio Device Realtek High Definition Audio USB Audio Device
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Name 1950W on AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x76
    Screen Resolution
    Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x768 pixels
    Hard Drives
    AMD K140
    Cores 2
    Threads 2
    Name AMD K140
    Package Socket FT1 BGA
    Technology 40nm
    Specification AMD E1-1200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
    Family F
    Extended Family 14
    Model 2
    Extended Model 2
    Stepping 0
    Revision ON-C0
    Instruction
    Browser
    Opera 24.0
    Antivirus
    Avast Internet Security
Thank you for your help! I run the bat file as administrator (took ~1 hour) and then rebooted, but it didn't seem to help. The log in the command line window reports:

Code: 
C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some
of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For
example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. Note that logging is currently not
supported in offline servicing scenarios.

C:\Windows\system32>Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.3.9600.17031

Image Version: 6.3.9600.17031

[==========================100.0%==========================]
The restore operation completed successfully. The component store corruption was repaired.
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow

Beginning system scan.  This process will take some time.

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some
of them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For
example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. Note that logging is currently not
supported in offline servicing scenarios.

C:\Windows\system32>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

It seems that there's something broken that sfc /scannow cannot fix. I also attach the CBS.log, but I'm not sure what's wrong. The log is very long, and I don't know what to look for exactly.
 

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  • CBS.log
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
The files that 'cannot be fixed' in the cbs.log:
utc.app.json
telemetry.ASM-WindowsDefault.json

These are false positive as they are for the upgrade to windows 10.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom build
    CPU
    i5-6500 @3.20GHz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte B150-HD3P-CF
    Memory
    16GB DDR4 2133 Crucial Ballistix Sport LT
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G
    Sound Card
    Built-in
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Liyama ProLite XB2483HSU-B2
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Crucial MX200 500GB & Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB
    PSU
    Corsair RM550x
    Case
    Fractal Design Define S
    Cooling
    Cooler Master TX3 i
    Keyboard
    Func KB-460 (MX Red)
    Mouse
    Corsair Gaming M65 RGB
    Browser
    Google Chrome
    Antivirus
    Bitdefender Total Security 2017 + MBAM Pro + MBAE Pro
    Other Info
    Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Rage V2 headset
For those interested, I finally managed to get rid of this issue. Inspired by a thread on Microsoft Community, I run several full scans with antivirus/antimalware tools and found out I was infected with a keylogger that Kaspersky either couldn't detect or failed to disinfect. After getting rid of that, the issue disappeared.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
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