Blinking "A" at bottom right corner (chat box)

Hello,

I’m new to this forum and been playing Freelancer
for a while now.

I hope to get some help with my strange problem
with Freelancer.

Recently I installed Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit
on my server and 2 PCs and played Freelancer
vanilla version in LAN.

For this I had to disable IPv6 in Windows 7 as
the IP-address was not in IPv4. (Please confirm
if this is really necessary or only my problem.)

Now I can play Freelancer properly in LAN but
I have the following strange problem.

When opening the chat box with “return” key
I see an “A” in a circle flashing grey and green
at the bottom right corner of the chat box.

This “A” was not there in WinXP. The manual
doesn’t say anything about it. Unfortunately I uninstalled
FLServer and therefore can’t make a screenshot anymore.

Another odd behaviour is that I can’t move the cursor in the
chat box to left, which I could do in WinXP.

I hope you have a solution to this problem.

All versions of Freelancer (vanilla) are patched to 1.1.

Thank you for the quick replies.

I keep it running that way with the “A”.
So far I haven’t tried the admin or compatibility mode
as I already uninstalled FLServer.

I will play Freelancer single player (+ nice story) once again,
perhaps there will be more bonuses

Regarding the IPv6 thing:
Is it really necessary to disable it in Windows 7
or is there another workaround?

I tried to quick connect to my server using the -s<ip>: <port>command line after freelancer.exe but it didn’t change
the IP format.

So far I thank you for your help.</port></ip>

Could you please tell me where I can disable
this extended IME in Windows 7?

My keyboard layouts are German and Slovakian,
but I haven’t found the unicode settings yet.