United Kingdom keyboard (language) is added automatically

Question

I've set keyboard languages: ENGLISH-US (not United Kingdom!) and ქარ (my local language).

Sometimes, I see that "ENGLISH (UNITED KINGDOM) [now "United States-International"] keyboard layout is added automatically in my keyboards list.

However, in Control Panel/Languages, it is not listed, neither shows in PowerShell:

$list = Get-WinUserLanguageList; echo  $list[0]; echo $list[1];echo $list[2];

so I can't even remove it! Even adding/removing doens't help!

It has become overly annoying, YEARS HAS PASSED but I can't stop it, can't uninstall. (update: I've posted my answer too below).

Answer 1

Add ENGLISH-UNITED KINGDOM keyboard and remove it

Answer 2

== Method 1==

The best way turned out to avoid United Kingdom during Installation of Windows. That moment, as your KEYBOARD INPUT, you should choose this:

English (United States) [if not shown, then English (International/US)]

== Method 2==

Click start and run this command directly:

powershell $LangList = Get-WinUserLanguageList; $MarkedLang = $LangList | where LanguageTag -eq en-GB; $LangList.Remove($MarkedLang); Set-WinUserLanguageList $LangList –Force;

== Method 3 (WORKED BETTER) ==

What worked for sure, was :

1. Go to Language preferences
2. There you should have added two languages: United States and United Kingdom
3. For both languages, click Options > Add keyboard and add whatever you see containing "English [US/United Kingdom/International]" add all them.
4. Then, after added all ENGLISH/US/United Kingdom/International Languages & Keyboard in all of them, **REMOVE ALL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ** packs.
5. Then re-add only English (US / United States)

== Method 4 (Might be best) ==

Go to Languages > Administrative settings > Copy settings > [check the 2 checkboxes] and OK & Restart ("Restart later" doesn't exist!)

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Update: to say frankly, none of them were able to fully remove UK package from my Win10. Enormously frustrating, years gone, MS still forcefully kick UKs still..

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you've already tried but here are some possible solution that might help you out.

Override default input method

If you go to: Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Language > Advanced settings

You will see an option to override default input method. You can set this to your wanted keyboard setting.

If you click on Change language bar hot keys (see image bottom) you can change the ALT+SHIFT or CTRL+SHIFT hotkeys. A button in the Advanced tab will say Change key sequence. You can put them on non assigned.

(this is a response to a question similar to this from someone else)

Answer 4

You can do that using PowerShell, running on system startup:

powershell command
powershell Set-WinUserLanguageList -LanguageList en-US

Another thing might be needed to uninstall UK package:

Lpksetup /u

Answer 5

I've found the solution here.

To fix this issue, delete the Preload registry folder and restart (or sign out) the computer:

HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload

...

I have created a RemovePreload.reg text file with the following content, this way this fix can easily be re-applied every time without navigating the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload]

To use this, save it in a text file and change the extension from .txt to .reg. Then whenever it comes back, you can just double click it and restart or sign out.

Answer 6

1. Try Control Panel -> Clock, Language, and Region -> Language
2. Now change everything to the way you want it to be.

3. When you are done, go to: Change date, time or number formats (left panel) -> Administrative (tab) -> Welcome screen and new user accounts (group box) and click on "Copy settings...". In "Copy your current settings to" select:

   • "Welcome screen and system accounts"
   • "New user accounts"

4. press OK.

Now all is left is to hope for the best because I don't remember if that's the right solution for the right problem.

Answer 7

When windows was installed, what was the default language? Images normally have major languages included with them but additional languages need to be downloaded from windows update. Its probably just going back to the Image default language when this happens.

Answer 8

Try this...

Open PowerShell as an administrator & type these commands.

Get-WinUserLanguageList
New-WinUserLanguageList en-US    
Set-WinUserLanguageList en-US

After that, you can add your local language later.

^{Reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8i7ctr/cant_remove_english_uk_language_windows_10_build/?ref=share&ref_source=link}

Answer 9

I've found a few references in Windows 8, but apparently according to this thread maybe it could help you: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/windows-keeps-automatically-adding-en-us-keyboard/69aaea0d-f588-4d54-89fa-a632ae7bced3

It seems to be one of three issues (see the site for more details): 1) Uncheck "Let me set a different input method for each app window." in language settings, 2) Make sure your region is set to your preference, 3) In Privacy settings, turn your location off.

Hopefully that helps.

Answer 10

An application is likely programmatically adding this. Do you use anything like HP iLO or Dell's DRAC? I wrote an app that used LoadKeyboardLayout to add a keyboard layout and the same symptoms appeared (it wasn't in Control Panel but it was in the language switcher).

I've noticed HP iLO plays with keyboard layouts too so that the layout reflects whatever the server is set to.