Windows 11 – How to Remove US Language

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I am sure I had same issue with Windows 10 and solved it. Now I can't solve it with Windows 11.

I have English (United Kingdom) language which is also locale language. I don't have English (United States) anywhere – see pictures.

However my keyboard with English UK is US. In Windows 10 it was not a problem – I had only one keyboard (US) with English UK language.

In Windows 11 I have now two keyboards if I use switch shortcut but in the settings there is only one keyboard and I can't delete the second one as it's not there.

To recap: I want to have ENG English (United Kingdom) US keyboard and remove ENG English (United States) US keyboard. All "duplicate" questions are not applicable here because I do not have ENG English (United States) language anywhere in the system.

So again – I need UK English language with US keyboard layout and nothing else.

Removing Preview key from registry doesn't work – it is back as soon as I sign in.

Keyboard layouts when I press Ctrl+Shift

Keyboard layouts when I press Ctrl+Shift

Language settings – only UK

Language settings - only UK

UK Language options

UK Language options

Best Answer

If you have any additional keyboard layout:

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That belongs to language that you don't have installed:

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Then simply:

  1. Install that language (English (United Kingdom) in the above example)
  2. Go to language details and install the keyboard layout (Polish (Programmers) in here)
  3. Uninstall the whole language language pack

After that pressing Win+Space should reveal only languages and keyboard layouts that you have actually installed in your system.

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