Remove Automatically Added Keyboard Layouts in Windows 8

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I have a Spanish keyboard on my notebook, but I use it mostly for English and Chinese writing.

This is how I configured the languages:

Language preferences

However, Windows added some layouts on its own (probably when connecting via Remote Desktop to computers with different languages/layouts):

Available layouts

Those layouts are all part of the AltShift cycle, which is extremely annoying.

How can I remove ENG/US and ESP, considering they don't show in the configuration list?

Is there a way to prevent them from being added again?

Best Answer

I was able to remove the unwanted layouts by creating an IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayout DWORD in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout and setting it to 1

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