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Unwanted keyboard layouts keep showing up
Greetings,
In one of my Windows 11 PC I am experiencing a very annoying problem.
I have two keyboard profiles: Japanese and Canadian multi-language (QWERTY). I switch between them with Win+SPACE shortcut. But ENG US and ENG UK also show up, despite the fact that I have not installed those keyboards or language packs.
I have removed the corresponding registry entries in HKEY_USERS.Default/Keyboard Layout/Preload (data is 409 and 809) but this does not remove the keyboard layouts and when I reboot those registry entries are again there.
How can I get rid once for all of unwanted keyboard layouts? I am clueless. Especially considering that this problem never occurred in my three other Win11 PC or a Win10 PC I own too.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
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Method: Remove Unwanted Layouts from Settings
1. Open Settings (You can search for "Settings" in the Start menu or press the Windows key + I).
2. Click on Time & language.
3. Click on Language & region.
4. Click on Language.
5. Select the language you want to keep (for example, English for Canada).
6. Click on Options.
7. Click on Keyboards.
8. Remove any unwanted keyboard layouts from the list by clicking on the three dots next to them and selecting Remove.
