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After I have installed Office 2016 Home and Student (en-us version) it automatically added two new keyboard layouts - English UK and English International in addition to my existing other layouts (English US and Russian). I'm trying to get rid of these new keyboard layouts but I absolutely cannot find an option to remove them ANYWHERE - not in Control Panel, not in Settings...

I have no "languages" section in Control panel, no "choose your langauge preferences" or whatever. In the new Settings thing these new languages are not shown in the list of languages, I can't remove them!

Does anybody know how to remove these new keyboard layouts? And why did Office add them in the first place?

Screenshots of my settings:

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None of these solutions worked for me:

Remove automatically added keyboard inputs and prevent them from coming back (Windows 10)

szx
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I had a similar problem to the OP: for the English language, I had US, Canadian Multilingual Standard as well as Canadian French as keyboard layouts and I could not remove the last two.

As I do not have administrator rights on my work PC, I could not use @harrymc's solution by editing the registry but I am able to edit language options. I tried the following and it worked for me:

  1. Add the extra unwanted keyboard layouts using the PC Settings > Time & Language > Language menu so they're all actually listed.
  2. Save.
  3. Afterwards, come back to the Languages screen and remove the extra layouts.
  4. Again, press Save.

I'm not quite sure how nor why but now those extra keyboard layouts are gone.

EDIT: I'm not sure if it's new or it existed when I added that solution but this solution does not persist through reboots.

Donald Duck is with Ukraine
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SolarBear
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If you cannot find these languages under PC Settings > Time & Language > Region & language > Languages, use regedit to navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload.

You will find there the list of keyboards that are preloaded at boot. Find the added keyboard layouts by their identifiers from the list of Keyboard Identifiers, and delete them.

Just in case, export this registry entry as backup.

EDIT: A more comprehensive answer can be found here.

harrymc
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In my scenario, I'm on an English (GB) language-pack and locale PC, but I want the English keyboard to be only United States-International.

I found this article which along with @harrymc's answer solved the issue.

  1. Add and remove all redundant keboard layouts

  2. Override input method (PS):

    Set-WinDefaultInputMethodOverride -InputTip "0809:00020409"

    Substitute 0809:00020409 with the desired keyboard layout from this list.

  3. Add a new DWORD key named IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayout under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout, and set its value to 1.

  4. Reboot.

Shimmy Weitzhandler
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I had the problem that my custom keyboard layout was displayed twice on the list of available keyboards. One working, one not… Obviously the second one had not been correctly deinstalled. Thus, it was necessary to delete the non-working layout's key in the registry: HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Keyboard Layouts\a0010807 (check the layout's details before deleting the key)

Bughater
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