Bug: Input Indicator in notification area constantly turns itself back on

Question

I've seen a few posts elsewhere with other people experiencing this problem and it's a constant frustration, the indicator will tend to pop up in place of one of the notification icon's I'm trying to double click on at the time - then the process to turn it off (10+ times a day) distracts from the task in hand. Has anyone that's seen the behaviour worked out a way to fix it? I'm using English UK input language and English US has been removed - still shows as an option on the Input Indicator when it re-appears.

Win 8 Enterprise x64. Several people in the company/department experiencing the same.

Answer 1

I have exactly the same issue. What's worse, even if I turn it off completely in "system icons on/off", it re-enables itself after a while. Bug

Answer 2

Yep that's identical. We've already got about 10 workstations on Win 8 in this department and several staff members have reported the same behaviour. A quick dig online and we're most definitely not alone in the issue. I don't get the same behaviour on a machine I use off campus so I suspect it might be related to one of the tools myself and other colleagues regularly have open such as MSTSC/RDP client.

Answer 3

Try running "sfc /scannow" from command prompt (in administrator mode)

I had the same problem but ran sfc because of a completely different problem. Afterwards I was happy to find that it fixed a corrupted en-us localization folder (don't ask me how the folder was/got "corrupted" - it must have been since i upgraded from windows 7 to 8 or even before then). Anyway since then the input indicator didn't turn itself back on.

Answer 4

Possible solution:

1. Settings → Language → Advanced Settings
2. Check "Use the desktop language bar when it's available" in "Switching input methods" section.
3. On the "Options" link select "Hidden" in "Language Bar" section.