The first thing a person remembers when he becomes a PC user is the Alt + Shift or Ctrl + Shift key combination. It is responsible for changing the keyboard layout, or rather, changing the input language. Sometimes, forgetting about the current setting, the user writes and writes something, and then, looking at the monitor, falls into despair. All text resembles a set of letters that must be deleted and re-typed. So that this kind of misunderstanding does not interfere Windows user 10 (and earlier Windows builds) to work with text editors, the developers of some software have provided the ability to automatically switch the language to the one that was already in use. Sometimes such concern for convenience causes confusion and the user does not know how to disable automatic language switching in Windows 10 and print both in Russian and English at the same time.

Disable auto-switch in programs and settings in Windows 10

The developers of Windows 10 gave the user the opportunity to choose how the system behaves with the text input language in a particular application. Unfortunately, not all text editors support automatic language switching. However, in the input method settings of the operating system you can specify the need to remember the desired language for each application. To do this, perform the following manipulations:

  • Click right click Mouse over the Start icon and select Control Panel.
  • A new window will appear. Select the "Language" section.

  • A window with language settings will appear. Click on the link " Extra options". Here we check the box "Allow me to choose an input method for each application" if you want to enable automatic language switching or uncheck the box to deactivate the function.

After making changes to this section Control panel, language auto-switch can be turned off or on in specific program. Let's consider an example on the Word program, as it is most often used by owners of PCs with Windows 10.

  • A small window will appear. In the menu on the left, select "Advanced" and check or uncheck (depending on the purpose) from the item "Automatically switch keyboard layout according to the language of the surrounding text."

  • We save the changes. Now, auto-switching will not work and you can change the input language yourself (or vice versa).

It is important to note that only in editors that allow you to create text documents, you can enable or disable language autosave. This cannot be done in other programs.

Programmatic way to disable auto-switching input language

You can enable automatic language switching when entering text or disable it using the Punto Switcher program. This program will monitor your typing and, if necessary, change the input language. At the same time, it is important to note that the program switches the language not only in text editors, but also in games, programs and Windows itself. You can set it up as follows.

We install the program. Run it on your PC. We call the settings. Select "General" and specify when and how to change the keyboard layout.

By going to the "Hot Keys" section, you can configure the language switching control. It is enough to double-click on a parameter and set a key combination for it.

If you do not want automatic language switching to work in some program, you should select the “Exclusion Programs” section and add software in which automatic layout switching will be disabled.

Thus, using such a lightweight program, automatic language switching in Windows 10 and installed programs can be turned on or off. The main thing is to set the right parameters correctly.

Donald Trump | 17-09-2017, 18:31
I've been struggling with this Punto Switcher since its inception. Moreover, new versions make the program worse and worse. Main disadvantage: switching to random moment time WITH AUTO SWITCH OFF. How many times have I written to technical support: "with auto-switching disabled, your program should work as if it doesn't exist on the computer at all" - but no, even with auto-switching disabled, they continue to monitor what you are typing (and why? auto-switching is turned off !) and compare with dictionaries - and if your set does not contain a word included in the Russian dictionary, then it is considered English (nonsense! - it was just a typo!) and switching to English occurs. Similarly with typing in English - also with a typo (not in the dictionary!) The word is considered Russian (stupidity!) And they switch. Well, how much this stupidity can be tolerated! The program just infuriates! Switches constantly (although I do not need it).

Maxim | 21-10-2014, 02:03
I use only auto-switching layouts, other functions are not interesting. More than satisfied.

Pantelei Trufelev | 3-09-2014, 17:53
And for me this program costs itself and costs more four years and it doesn't seem to do any harm. Tov. benmih! And where does it transfer data about the computer?

benmih | 2-09-2014, 18:20
Be careful with this program. It constantly transmits data about the computer. It's very hard to take it off. I had to use several programs to completely remove it. It clings to the computer like a cancer.

re | 11-07-2014, 21:45
the program was so dumb and so it remained - how many times they were asked to make a captcha input analyzer - they do nothing ...

Quack | 1-03-2014, 04:50
Practically does not go to Windows 8, installed with dancing with a tambourine, unchecked where necessary, as soon as you clicked "ok", the default settings returned. The diary does not work at all, somehow opened it, it remains empty. Yes, and with the seven it went with a bang, there were always bugs, I switched languages ​​when I thought of it :(

Oleg | 16-12-2013, 04:05
Excellent program. I configured: auto-switching, disabling auto-switching (in the settings-keys), forced switching of the keyboard (settings-general) and nothing interferes. It has become much more convenient.

Roman | 14-09-2013, 13:35
full dermis

grd2013 | 8-06-2013, 04:00
I like this program. And for those who do not know how to customize for themselves - then you need to recolor your hair in dark color or straighten your arms :) The program has enough settings so that it works stably. You can set all sorts of exceptions and switching rules. I also changed the transliteration for myself. I made a dash instead of a space (well, this is purely what I need).

Dmitry Medvedev | 31-03-2013, 13:56
I often have to go on business trips and correspond with foreign leaders, I often have to write reports to my boss, naturally I use my favorite iPhone and here the Punto Switcher program came to my aid. It's just fantastic!

Alla | 18-03-2013, 19:05
Did not like. Switches to another layout whatever you like. When describing a stop-it work. With oriental languages, in general, atas - switches to Russian at every space. The destruction took over an hour. When downloading, be sure that you need it.

Vitaly | 10-12-2012, 13:37
Just a holiday!

shaft | 13-10-2012, 09:13
I like.

Andrew | 3-09-2012, 08:19
What is it all the same good program, this zgtesch ytsshesruk!

www.systemsit.com | 14-05-2012, 23:06
Great app, I've been using it for a few years now.

atem | 6-03-2012, 19:23
Class

Andes | 11-11-2011, 05:43
I've been using it for the hell of years, it's already not habitual without it on someone else's computer. Recently activated in the autocorrect menu, the list is growing rapidly, a very useful menu.

Wavan | 17-09-2011, 19:37
Cool program

stavhelp.com | 17-09-2011, 17:22
I just can't live without this program

rodin | 19-02-2011, 08:17
On Windows-7, Punto Switcher often conflicts with some service (application?) and does not switch rus-lat. Otherwise, I have no complaints, I would put the top five.

Punto Switcher is a program for automatically switching keyboard layouts. The program monitors the correct keyboard layout when typing on the computer, and, if necessary, automatically replaces the keyboard layout.

Many people are familiar with the situation when, when typing on the keyboard, the user forgot to change the keyboard layout, for example, from English to Russian. The user enters the word "hello" thinking that he is typing in the Russian layout, but in fact he is typing this word "ghbdtn" in the English keyboard layout. The Punto Switcher program will recognize that the user has made a mistake and switch to the correct keyboard layout.

The main features of the free program Punto Switcher:

  • automatic keyboard switching
  • autocorrect
  • fix selected text and clipboard text
  • sound design
  • switching keyboard layout using hotkeys
  • keeping a diary, in which all typed text is saved
  • saving the last 30 texts to the clipboard

In the Punto Switcher program, you can not only correct layout and case, but also perform the following actions: check spelling, transliterate, clear selected text from formatting, etc.

When switching layouts, and in some other cases, Punto Switcher, gives sound signal, notifying you of these actions.

You can download free program Punto Switcher from the official website of Yandex - the manufacturer of this application.

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Punto Switcher Settings

It will be possible to enter the settings of the Punto Switcher program from the notification area. After right-clicking on the program icon, select context menu item "Settings".

This will open the "Punto Switcher Settings" window. The program settings are located in several sections:

  • General - here you can configure general rules for the program to work
  • Hotkeys - you can set up hotkeys for more convenient control program
  • Switching rules - here you can configure the program in which cases it is necessary to switch the keyboard layout, and in which it is not necessary to do this
  • Exception programs - you can add to the list programs in which you will need to disable automatic keyboard layout switching
  • Troubleshooting - here you can add some additional settings when problems arise
  • AutoCorrect - in this section you can set abbreviations that will be automatically replaced with full words
  • Sounds - here are the sound settings for actions and events in the Punto Switcher program
  • Diary - you can save all text information typed on the keyboard

You can read more about working with the Punto Switcher Diary in a special article on my website.

The program offers several hotkey options for switching layouts. In the "General" section, you can activate the "Switch by:" item, and then select hotkeys for fast switching keyboard layouts. The Punto Switcher program responds to quick keystrokes in order to avoid conflict with the usual system shortcuts.

You can perform any actions using the Punto Switcher program using hot keys, or by enabling the necessary functions by clicking on the program icon from the notification area.

Here you can quickly change some program settings: enable or disable auto-switching, sound effects, in the clipboard you can: change the layout, transliterate, check spelling, view history, you can additionally turn on keeping a diary, view the diary, create an autocorrect list, send the selected text to Twitter, view system properties, convert numbers to text.

With the help of the program, you can find the necessary information on external resources on the Internet. Select "Find" from the context menu, and then decide where to look for the information you need.

Fix typing errors in Punto Switcher

When typing words that have impossible combinations of letters in Russian or English, the Punto Switcher program will automatically switch the keyboard layout. Next, you will be typing in the correct language.

In more simple cases the program changes the layout after several letters entered, in more complex cases, the word will change only after the full input, after pressing the spacebar.

You can manually cancel the keyboard layout switch on the last word entered. Suppose there are some English words in the Russian text that the program wants to convert into Russian, or they made a typo. To do this, you will need to press the "Pause / Break" (Break) key. It will also be possible to highlight text and change the input language using this very useful key. In this case, the layout is also changed using the "Shift" + "Pause/Break" (Break) keys.

Remember this "magic" key, it will often help you out when entering text.

  • Pause/Break (Break) - this key will force you to change the input language of the last word or selected text.

When entering abbreviations that do not obey the rules, errors in rewriting these words are possible. You can disable the correction of abbreviations in the program settings. In the "General" section, in the "Advanced" tab, you can uncheck the box next to the "Correct abbreviations" item. However, this is not necessary, since if an abbreviation is entered incorrectly, you can press the Pause / Break key in order to correct this word.

Many laptops don't have a "Pause/Break" key. What should such users do?

Replacing the Break key with another key on a laptop

If your laptop does not have a Pause / Break key, then Yandex suggests using the F11 key instead. You can choose any other keys.

In the settings of Punto Switcher, enter the "Hot Keys" section. Highlight the action you want to change. In our case, this is a replacement for the "Break" key (Pause / Break). Click the "Assign..." button.

In the "Select key combination" window, activate the item opposite the input field, click in the field with the mouse button, and then press the desired key on the keyboard, or several keys at once. After that, click on the "OK" button, the key combinations will be changed.

Instead of the "Break" key, I chose the "F11" key.

As you can see in this image, I changed the "Break" key to "F11" in the hotkey settings.

Case change, transliteration, spell check

To change the case of the program, there is a key combination "Alt" + "Pause / Break". You will need to highlight the text and then press these keyboard keys. As a result, all uppercase letters will be CAPITAL, and capital letters, on the contrary, in capital letters.

To change the transliteration, that is, to translate the letters of the Russian text into Latin letters, or vice versa, you can use the keyboard shortcut "Alt" + "Scroll Lock". For example, if you need to change the word "thank you" into a word written in Latin letters "spasibo".

Highlight right word or text, and then press that keyboard shortcut. The selected text will be written in Latin or Russian letters (if reverse transliteration is performed).

So far, there are no rules for a unified Russian transliteration, so the text will be rewritten according to Yandex rules.

With Punto Switcher you can check the spelling on the clipboard. To do this, click on the program icon in the notification area. In the context menu, first select the "Clipboard" item, and then the "Check Spelling" item.

Now you can paste the text from the clipboard into a document, into your correspondence, or anywhere else.

Article Conclusions

The free Punto Switcher program from Yandex automatically changes the keyboard layout, makes corrections in the typed text, autocorrects, transliterates, spell checks, saves the typed data in the diary.

The main purpose of the program Punto Switcher is to automatically change the keyboard layout from English to Russian (and vice versa) when typing is not in the required language. This process is constantly monitored using the built-in dictionary, which contains a sufficiently large number of the most frequently used phrases. Thus, when typing text on the keyboard, you no longer have to worry about having to rewrite it again, the Punto Switcher program converts everything automatically. However, if for some reason this does not happen, you can use the built-in transliterator, which in a split second will bring the typed text into a readable form.
Punto Switcher works using the principle of the impossibility of combining some letters for Russian and English. In Russian, for example, a word cannot begin with the letter "b". The program monitors what letters are typed on the keyboard, and if the program sees an invalid combination, for example, bschku (More), after pressing the spacebar, Enter or Tab, the layout automatically switches. A dictionary of several million words is used to identify impossible combinations. Please keep in mind that the program works correctly with the Russian and English keyboard layouts, the switching rules are based on the rules of the Russian and English languages.

Features of the Punto Switcher program:

  • creating and editing your own user dictionary;
  • fix RANDOM pressing CapsLock;
  • cancellation of switching and correction of the typed text by pressing Break. For example, you want to turn the just typed "we" into "vs" - press Break;
  • switching prevention and correction. For example, you are typing a password in Latin letters and do not want the layout to switch. Press the right arrow (key →) and the layout will not switch, and the typed text will be corrected;
  • sound signal for typos;
  • correction of the first two capital letters, for example in the case of: Russia - Russia;
  • setting the way to switch layouts;
  • autocorrect. Now you can create abbreviations that will expand. For example, you write - "SNP", and these three letters turn into the phrase: "With Best wishes". Also, you can put the name of your company in autocorrect, for example, SKK - Samara Cable Company.

The Punto Switcher program includes a diary - Punto Diary. The diary is designed to help you keep and organize meaningful text that is usually scattered over conferences, letters, chats. Punto Dairy has the ability to search through the entire text that a person typed during the week, month, year. A journalist can make an article out of this, a writer can make a book, or you can leaf through your diary and remember what you did last spring. Punto Diary can be useful for quoting a forgotten chat conversation, restoring text after a program crash, etc.

It often happens that you write a long message in Skype or type some text in Word, and then you find nonsense from English letters. And all this happens due to the fact that the layout was not changed in time or the switching keys were simply stuck. With this program, all these problems will remain in the past. Moreover, it works in any editor, on websites, in social networks. networks or in the messenger running on your computer. You can turn off auto-switching to change the layout at will using a predefined keyboard shortcut.

Other interesting features include phrase autocorrect. This is also useful for compound words that are not in the program's database. By adding them to a special list, the words will be automatically replaced by the option that the user specified. There is also a separate tab for exception programs, where the prescribed rules will not apply. Separately, it is worth highlighting the "Diary" function, which allows you to save absolutely any textual information on your computer. To do this, you need to check the corresponding settings tab and enter your password.

In 2008, Yandex acquired Punto Switcher. Therefore, the utility contains many functions related to the Yandex search engine. For example, the "Find in Yandex" function works as follows: by selecting a word on any site and holding the Win + S key combination, the user will go to its search in Yandex. For other search functions, you need to assign hotkeys yourself.

Punto Switcher has been successfully working for the benefit of users for the past 13 years. During this time, she received national recognition, becoming one of the the best programs for working with selected text, switching keyboard layouts and letter case.

Key features and functions

  • automatic replacement of incorrectly typed text;
  • the ability to translate text from one layout to another using a keyboard shortcut;
  • takes about 6-7 MB in RAM;
  • flexible configuration of all program functions due to hot keys;
  • it is possible to clear the formatting in the contents of the clipboard (Ctrl + Win + V);
  • the ability to save the text typed on the computer in the Diary;
  • work with Yandex services.