The "(no dead keys)" variant to US-International solves that problem. Windows unfortunately doesn't have it out of the box (Ubuntu does). But you can make your

The "(no dead keys)" variant to US-International solves that problem. Windows unfortunately doesn't have it out of the box (Ubuntu does). But you can make your own layout with "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator". And plenty of people have already made "United States-International (no dead keys)" for Windows, so if you don't want to figure out the MS tool, you can just download+install a layout from GitHub.