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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 sh...
This is a notoriously frustrating issue with Windows, and you're right to be puzzled—especially since your other PCs are fine. The fact that the registry keys you deleted (HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload) keep coming back is a massive clue: something is actively repopulating them. The source is likely a corrupted system profile, a synchronization setting, or a specific application.