Can't remove unneeded keyboard layouts - no such setting anywhere

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After I have installed Office 2016 Home and Student (en-us version) it automatically added two new keyboard layouts - English UK and English International in addition to my existing other layouts (English US and Russian). I'm trying to get rid of these new keyboard layouts but I absolutely cannot find an option to remove them ANYWHERE - not in Control Panel, not in Settings...

I have no "languages" section in Control panel, no "choose your langauge preferences" or whatever. In the new Settings thing these new languages are not shown in the list of languages, I can't remove them!

Does anybody know how to remove these new keyboard layouts? And why did Office add them in the first place?

Screenshots of my settings:

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None of these solutions worked for me:

Remove automatically added keyboard inputs and prevent them from coming back (Windows 10)

szx

Posted 2018-09-23T09:59:14.077

Reputation: 376

If anyone still finds ENG-International keyboard layout returning constantly after triggering a certain hotkey, the easiest workaround (not a solution) is to press WinKey+Spacebar. This will cycle through all available keyboard layouts enabled on your machine, and you can easily switch out to the right ENG keyboard layout. – tom_mai78101 – 2019-08-11T18:43:21.757

Answers

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If you cannot find these languages under PC Settings > Time & Language > Region & language > Languages, use regedit to navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload.

You will find there the list of keyboards that are preloaded at boot. Find the added keyboard layouts by their identifiers from the list of Keyboard Identifiers, and delete them.

Just in case, export this registry entry as backup.

harrymc

Posted 2018-09-23T09:59:14.077

Reputation: 306 093

1Yeah, I've tried that, this key gets re-created after reboot, can't delete it forever it seems – szx – 2018-09-23T11:01:01.740

Does this happen if you boot into Safe Mode? – harrymc – 2018-09-23T15:04:06.693

I managed to finally get rid of these keyboard layouts by setting the values under Preload key to 0. I'm not sure why this worked. Since then they have been changed back to some other non-zero values but I haven't had this problem again. So I guess this answer can be accepted. – szx – 2018-10-08T08:53:02.947

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I had a similar problem to the OP: for the English language, I had US, Canadian Multilingual Standard as well as Canadian French as keyboard layouts and I could not remove the last two.

As I do not have administrator rights on my work PC, I could not use @harrymc's solution by editing the registry but I am able to edit language options. I tried the following and it worked for me:

  1. Add the extra unwanted keyboard layouts using the PC Settings > Time & Language > Region & language > Languages menu so they're all actually listed.
  2. Save.
  3. Afterwards, come back to the Languages screen and remove the extra layouts.
  4. Again, press Save.

I'm not quite sure how nor why but now those extra keyboard layouts are gone.

EDIT: I'm not sure if it's new or it existed when I added that solution but this solution does not persist through reboots.

SolarBear

Posted 2018-09-23T09:59:14.077

Reputation: 131

Asked: 2018-09-23T09:59:14.077

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Active: 2019-11-06T16:34:11.113