Sunday 14 June 2020

Deleting a language keyboard for a language you didn't install in Windows 10

After using a 3rd party program to install a language keyboard, I discovered 2 keyboard had been installed: the one I wanted and US QWERTY for US English. As I'm happy enough using the US QWERTY layout keyboard for Canadian English, I had no use for essentially a duplicate language keyboard. It's a minor annoyance, but when cycling through languages I would have to press the language switching key combination (WIN + Space) an extra time. However, in the language settings, US English was no where to be found. According to this Stack Overflow post, this is a bug on Windows' part. The solution is to install the language that the intruding keyboard belongs to (US English in my case) and then delete it. The extra unexpected keyboard should now be gone.