windows-10 – How to Remove Language Pack in Windows 10

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Introduction

During the Windows 10 installation (new laptop, wasn't updating from 7 or 8) I was asked to choose which languages I wanted to add. I selected English US, my native language and English UK.

After a while I got tired of the UK pack and so I removed it by Language Button on the TaskBar > Language Preferences > English (United Kingdom) > Remove, which seemingly removed it.

A couple of days later I realized I still had to altshift twice to switch between languages even though I had supposedly removed English UK. So it seems that after every reboot the problem reappears.

When the problem occurs, I can see all 3 languages on the taskbar. But only 2 on the Language Settings page. Also the command Get-WinUserLanguageList only displays 2 languages.

What I've tried

I've tried adding and removing the pack again, which also temporarily fixes the problem (until the next reboot).

Computer Info

Operating System: Windows 10 Home (1903) (Build 18362.356)
Model Name: Inspiron 5579
Architecture: 64bit

Best Answer

The keyboard layout code for the United Kingdom keyboard is 00000809. It will be found in the registry under more than one key (listed below). It will be in an entry whose value is this string. Deleting the entry will delete the layout (leave the others in place). A reboot is required to see if the keyboard layout is successfully deleted.

The two main registry keys where keyboard layouts are found:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\CTF\SortOrder\Language

Some secondary registry keys where keyboard layouts may be found and which are worth checking:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\SortOrder\Language
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\User Profile

This is most likely due to synchronized settings.

It could be that your computer is syncing these settings from elsewhere. Make sure you turn off the syncing behaviour before you troubleshoot any further:

>Settings > Accounts > Sync your settings > Language Preferences (OFF)

or: There an issue reported about this for 1803, which does not seem to have been resolved. It is a known issue:

Update: This should be resolved for version 2004

If English (United Kingdom) is the current Windows display language, and you then add for instance English (India) to the Preferred languages list, afterwards neither English (United Kingdom) nor English (India) can be removed from the Preferred languages list.

or:

Someone has suggested that Razer's Synapse software keeps adding the random layouts. Disabling it on startup fixes all these issues. This could be a problem for some who comes here looking for a solution.

or:

It could also be related to this question here on superuser.

If you still see the issue, there are a few proposed solutions to this problem:

1 use the old language preferences:

WIN + R then type shell:::{BF782CC9-5A52-4A17-806C-2A894FFEEAC5} and remove English(United Kingdom) from there.

2 Set en-US as only user language (found here):

Open Powershell with Administrative rights and type the following one by one:

New-WinUserLanguageList en-US

Set-WinUserLanguageList en-US

You will be greeted with:

Confirm
Continue with this operation?
[Y] Yes  [N] No  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"):

Press Y to confirm. Reboot. And install the wanted extra languages again.

3 Yet another way:

From the Start menu, search for powershell.
Right-click Windows Powershell in the search results and choose Run as administrator.
Type or copy/paste the following command at the command prompt, and then press Enter.

`Get-WinUserLanguageList`

After typing this command, make note of the “LanguageTag” listed for the language you wish to remove, as you will need it in the next step.

Type or copy/paste each of the following commands at the command prompt, and then press Enter. In the following commands, instead of typing , replace it with the language tag you wish to remove, such as en-in for English (India).

$LangList = Get-WinUserLanguageList
$MarkedLang = $LangList | where LanguageTag -eq "<languagecode>"
$LangList.Remove($MarkedLang)

Set-WinUserLanguageList $LangList -Force

You can also try this tutorial from windows central

You can read more about windows language packs here

Introduction

What I've tried

Computer Info

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This is most likely due to synchronized settings.

If you still see the issue, there are a few proposed solutions to this problem:

1 use the old language preferences:

2 Set en-US as only user language (found here):

3 Yet another way:

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