Pressing the tilde key (~) waits for a second key stroke, how do I disable this? (2020 version)

Question

Answers to this question are outdated, as the tool from Microsoft is no longer avaiable. Are there any other solutions?

EDIT:
I'm using Windows 10, and my keyboard layout is polish.

EDIT 2: The links in the updated answer appear to work (thanks @user1686!), I have accepted the lazy solution of just pressing space. Not exactly ideal, but easy enough that I will probably use that instead of tinkering with custom keyboard layouts on every system I use.

Microsoft, shame on you for not allowing users to customize their layouts by default!

Answer 1

This will happen if you use a keyboard layout that supports this, such as US International.

Add a second keyboard layout that is United States, and switch to it, and the problem will be gone.

Answer 2

The simplest solution to get the actual character out of these "compose"-type keys might be:

e.g. ~space to get ~

It doesn't work with all of them though.

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Added 2020-09-02:

Note that these key are intended to allow e.g. entry of characters like ñ, Ñ, ü, Ü, åÅ, äÄ, öÖ and many others. The actual umlauts++ might not be available as singled out characters.