How to fix Apostrophes and double quotes not showing up in Windows

 Background

Recently I started using Windows 11 and realized Apostrophes (Single quotes) and double quotes not showing up until I type in the next letter. This behavior is really annoying, especially for me (I am from India/Asia) if you are wondering 😄 . This is most probably because you are using a US-international keyboard. In this post, I will show you how to fix this behavior.

Fixing "Apostrophes and double quotes not showing up in Windows"

As I mentioned before the issue is with you using the US-international keyboard. So you need to fix that.

I am using "Windows 11" so the below steps are keeping that in mind, but you would have similar steps in another version of Windows.

1. Select Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region.
2. Under Preferred languages, select the options from 1st language you are using and click on "Language Options".
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Next, go under "Keyboards", here you will see the "US-International" keyboard installed. We need to remove this.
4. Let's add the Keyboard we intend to use 1st. I am adding English (India) but you can choose the keyboard you want (Let's say English (United Kingdom)).
5. Now select "US-International" keyboard from the list.
   
   
   
   
   
6. Changes should immediately take effect.

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How to move TaskBar to the top or side in Windows 11

 Background

I recently started using Windows 11 and noticed there is no way to move windows TaskBar around. It is permanently fixed toward the bottom of the screen. I personally need the TaskBar towards the left or right of the screen and here's why - Our screen (Desktop or Laptop has more horizontal space than vertical space, hence it's only logical to keep TaskBar on the left or right of the screen so that it takes only horizontal space). Though there is no good way to move the TaskBar around there is a registry edit hack that does the trick. 

NOTE: If you are a normal windows user (Have not worked on programming and Windows internals before), I would recommend not to do the below but just live with TaskBar being on the bottom. Follow the below steps only if you know what you are doing and your own risk.

How to move TaskBar to the top or side in Windows 11

1. Open "Windows Start" and search for "regedit" OR
2. Go to "Run" (using ⊞ Win+R) and type "regedit" and press enter.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. You will get a prompt asking if you want to let the current user make changes to "Registry Editor". Press Ok.
4. Next from the left hierarchy panel, you need to go to the following entry:
   

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects3
   

5. Double-click the Settings binary key.
   
   
   
   
6. Under "Value data" section click on the entry with the 2nd row and the 6th column (The default value would be 03). 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Press the delete key and replace it with the 01 value to move the taskbar to the top. Press ok.
   
   
   
   
   
8. You can replace them with the following values as you desire
• 00: Move the Taskbar to the left
• 01: Move the Taskbar to the top
• 02: Move the Taskbar to the right
• 03: Move the Taskbar to the bottom
9. For changes to take effect you need to restart the "Windows Explorer" process.
1. You can go to "Task Manager" and restart the "Windows explorer" process. OR
2. Do it via "Command prompt" via the following commands.
1. Open the command prompt from the start menu or from the run menu(⊞ Win+R) and "cmd" command.
2. "taskkill /f /im explorer.exe"
3. "start explorer.exe"
   
   

You will then see Taskbar move to the top of the screen.

NOTE: With the above steps, you can move the TaskBar to the right or left as well, but it's useless (It does not work as expected). Hopefully, Windows 11 team fixes this sooner but we have to live with it for now. I personally am not happy with the above as I really want my TaskBar on the right due to the reasons mentioned in the "Background section" at the top.