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I have a mildly infuriating problem where I cannot remove the US keyboard no matter what on Windows 11.

I currently live in Japan and the Japanese Input Method can very conveniently switch between both English and Japanese input modes making the US keyboard completely redundant.

What makes it even more annoying is that Windows decides to default to using the US input Method randomly on it's own. The keybind for switching between English and Japanese on the Japanese IME is ctrl + ` but on the US input that keybind switches windows. So when I try to type something in Japanese and English shows up, I instictively press ctrl + `` to swap to Japanese but instead to my annoyance it brings up another window.

I am at my wits end, I've removed english completely from my system, tried all the suggested methods such as installing the english pack and uninstalling it again. I've fiddled with regedit and I've tried looking the problem up in Japanese forums but have found nothing that would work.

Even if I can't get rid of it, simply stopping it from magically defaulting itself to US would be a god-send.

Rikeno
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I have managed to figure it out.

The culprit appears to be explorer patcher which I have been using to uncombine taskbar windows, it's been automatically adding the US keyboard to my registry and setting it to default for some odd reason.

I'm not sure how helpful it is since it's a pretty niche problem but here's how I solved it:

  • Reset Explorer Patcher to its default settings
  • Go to AppData/Roaming and delete the ExplorerPatcher folder
  • Uninstall Explorer Patcher
  • Open Regedit and navigate to HKEY_USERS\\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload and delete the unwanted keyboards
  • Sign out and sign back in
  • Reinstall Explorer Patcher
Aulis Ronkainen
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Rikeno
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