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Wrong keyboard layout at login screen
We are seeing this again after the may 2023 updates, across windows 10 platforms.
tried the GPO fix mentioned by Joe VanHollebeke , which seems to solve it when a user is logged in, but not for the first login where there is no user.
KennethL1812
Have you tried to remove the unwanted keyboard layout from registry?
Subkey in \HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\User Profile System Backup\
We had this problem also and we changed a bit the pre-installation, but older workstations had this extra registry which gave us default keyboard layout to en-US.
Thing is we are danish based, but we have UK and Swedish users, and they are having the issue with the keyboard reverting to DK when they lock thier PC.
the GPO, looks like it fixed the issue for the user when they are logged in.
I tried adding a Swedish keybord to that key, but it still didnt show on the login in screen before user login.
I have added SWE to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload and then the keyboard is availble before any user logs in.
Giving the user the option to change keyboard if they have special local chars in thier password, but once they login it looks like the GPO to disallow, seems to have fixed the issue for logged on users.
I will do some more testing, with a few users too, and hopefully remember to update here 🙂