How do I remove a keyboard layout?

Question

I used MKLC 1.3 to create a custom keyboard layout. Now I want to modify that keyboard layout. I modify the .KLC file successfully, but when I try to compile it, I get the following failure messages:

ERROR: The keyboard name 'Mystery' is already in use on this machine.

ERROR: The keyboard description 'Mystery Language, CanIL 2012' is already in use on this machine.

I don't want to change the name of this keyboard layout. I am used to it. I have tried everything I know how to remove the old one, to no avail. How can I do this?

Answer 1

Hi tpayne99,

Your Windows question is more complex than what is typically answered in the Microsoft Answers forums as it is related to creating a keyboard layout. It is better suited in Windows User Interface Forums.

Please post your question in the **User Interface Development for Windows forums**.

Answer 2

Thanks, that's massively unhelpful.  A custom keyboard layout is not 'User Interface Development', it is a simple matter of usage, *especially* when said layout has been created with a Microsoft (user-oriented!) tool.  User Interface Development involves creating an application.  This is not such an attempt: all the OP (and myself!) were trying to do is use the existing system, and furthermore a keyboard layout has no user interface to develop.

No wonder the question received no replies after you directed the poster to resubmit it to the wrong forum.

Thanks, Microsoft Support.

Answer 3

That's a bit of a cop-out, since it's a question about using Microsoft software (i.e. the layout creator AND Windows itself).  There have been ZERO replies in the other forum anyway.