Can I keep Windows from defaulting printers to A4 paper?

Solution 1:

I do not know if this will solve your issue after keyboard changes. But I've been having to change printer properties every time I print, from A4 defaults, and finally think I have fixed it.

To change the printer defaults, you have to be in Control Panel, Devices and Printers. Right click and select -->Printing Preferences. Adjust the Paper size to Letter, then click the button -->Default. Click apply. The settings on the default printer seem to now have picked up on the other printers (Windows 10.)

(As a matter of reference, I am in Canada, not Europe, and A4 keeps showing up)

Solution 2:

Windows decides the default paper size depending on "control panel -> Region and Language -> Formats -> Format:" setting.

Change Format to "English (United states)", then when you install a printer it will default to paper size Letter. Change it to some European format like "Dutch (Netherlands)" and it will default to A4.

Solution 3:

I might be a little late for the party, I have Windows 10, and I ran into this problem from the opposite side. I try to have my computer language English, and my locale Hungarian, and that went ok, until I messed with the keyboard languages. In the language list, the one that comes first will be the language of your system, apps, etc and also the default keyboard language.

Since I wanted the default keyboard language Hungarian, but the apps language English, I had to search intensively for a solution, and I found one - in the Settings app > Devices > Typing > Advanced Keyboard Settings > Override for default input method to Hungarian (in your case Russian) while in > Time & Language > Language I keep my preferred language list as 1. English and 2. Hungarian

Now it works as I expected, except that it defaults to Letter size in printing preferences (I want A4), that's how I ended up here.