Guild wars and Vista

I'm playing GW on both my XP desktop and my Vista laptop. No real issues with Vista except one thing.

I can't announce my targets to my party using control space on my laptop. The only difference between the two machines is the OS. It changes my language to chinese when I do that, lol.

Is there something about vista that won't let me do this or is it just the way the laptop works. On City of heroes you normally camera in and out using the home and end keys and on this laptop I can't get that to work so I have to reassign those commands to different keys. I'm thinking it has to do with the fact that my home and end keys are part of the numpad on the keyboard.

Is there a way to change the announce target command to party or does anyone know how to do this using vista.

I'm using an ASUS M50VM series laptop. Wish it had XP on it that is its only downfall. But the 1g 9600 GT is nice

you've merely installed two languages on vista. to fix it, uninstall chinese, or change the keybind for switch language to something else. i used to have the same issue on my laptop, since it came with english and french. i fixed it by simply uninstalling french.

now if only i can change out of this gimpy french keyboard... damn canada and it's stupid dual language rules.

i had (and still have) the same problem but it's easily fixed just by hitting shift+ctrl+space to call the target or ctrl+alt+space to say i'm using/attacking target

This could also be caused by some key-bind for MSN Live Messenger or some such thing. I forget the details, but if you search these forums, the topic has come up before.

Well I'm not sure if all the menus are named the same thing on Vista, but it's worth a shot.

Go to Start > Control Panel > Regional Language Options > Languages tab > Details > then you should be at something called Text Services and Input Languages. Then click on ''Key settings'' and you should be able to change the hot-key for what changes you over to Chinese.

On my computer Left Alt+Shift toggles between Swedish and English, so you can easily just change what hot-key does it or entirely remove Chinese from the tab. I'm doing this on XP but I'm sure it's the same on Vista, haven't used it in a while. I'll get on it later and look at it in case. But basically what I think is happening is you are triggering the toggle-language hot-key so that is why it's all messed up.