Language Hotkeys removed by itself in Windows 10

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I have four keyboards and I have defined Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2 and Ctrl+3 ... hot-keys for them. The problem is that either all of the hot-keys or the first one is removed regularly. For example every time the computer goes to sleep (or even locked) all of them are removed.

I even tried other hot-keys (Ctrl+Shift+1, ... Ctrl+Shift+4) or (Alt+Shift+1, ... Alt+Shift+4) and the problem still exist.

If I assign a transition key (Left Shift+Alt) it will work but that's not that useful when you have more than 2 keyboards and you want to regularly change the keyboard.

It appears that the problem has existed in Windows 8 too (and has something to do with welcome screen) but the solution I found does not work on Windows 10 (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/custom-hotkeys-to-change-input-language-disappear/66d1d89d-e5dc-41e1-a8b3-48d596ab8e11).

Has anyone been able to solve this problem?

wmac

Posted 2016-01-26T21:12:18.310

Reputation: 1 047

I myself have that problem. But no idea how to solve it. Various 'fixes' found on the internet did not help for me... – Zaheylu – 2016-01-27T15:05:37.880

I found several similar items on windows "Feedback Hub": 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - consider up-voting them - there's a tiny chance that this might help.

– i3v – 2017-11-21T19:11:19.473

Answers

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I finally found the solution and I am posting, in case someone else has the problem.

1- Define your hot-keys.

2- Search and find the "region" settings palette and go to administrative tab.

region-administrative tab

Now go to "Copy Settings" section.

copy settings

Select both tick boxes below the window and press ok.

In my case this applied the settings in a way that they are no more removed.

wmac

Posted 2016-01-26T21:12:18.310

Reputation: 1 047

That's the solution found in the link you have posted in your question isn't it? – Zaheylu – 2016-01-27T15:55:59.217

2The solution was for windows 8. It is the same but with a bit difference for windows 10. In windows 10, the settings are in a different place than the one mentioned in that link (for windows 8). – wmac – 2016-01-28T04:13:55.253

Any solution for users without administrative rights? – Igor – 2017-05-17T06:04:27.690

1It looks like the issue is still there. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. It specially after additional updates - you have to re-set all the hotkeys again, but no warranty that they will work. – Tigran – 2017-06-16T07:01:41.563

1What to do if there are two users and both of them have different hotkeys? – St.Shadow – 2017-11-05T07:52:48.570

Stunning hoe many threads about this can be found on Microsoft's own forum and yet Microsoft does nothing to fix it. E.g. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-forgets-language-switching-key/fc331d98-e942-4143-b596-0ef16586e406, https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/400a7b3b-904a-47a8-9e6d-c958c7328b7e/windows-10-keeps-forgetting-language-bar-hot-keys?forum=windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues

– Đonny – 2019-11-26T11:00:42.227

Yes, copying settings from current user to default user works. But I could do this via RegEdit only. I copied two entries (for two custom keys) from [HKEY_USERS\S-1-(MYUSER-ID)-1001\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000100] and 00000101 to [HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys] ... – yvolk – 2019-11-28T09:51:33.097

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