US Keyboard in International Style

Open up the 'Keyboard' from your Control Panel, select the 'Language' tab, then pull up the Properties for the 'English (United States)' layout. Now, in the drop-down menu, change it from 'United States 101' to 'United States - International.' From now on, you don't have to remember the code to make an accented lowercase E, you can type an apostrophe first and then the letter. Windows will transmogrify it for you. ~n will become an 'n' with a tilde over it; "u will become a 'u' with an umlaut mark over it. In addition, you can also use: ALT+/ (upside-down question mark), ALT+1 (upside-down exclamation mark), and ALT+c (copyright symbol).