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This was no problem with Windows 10, but I cannot seem to figure out how to do it in Windows 11. I want my Windows 11 language to be completely in English as default. But I need my keyboard by default to be Danish. However, I also need to have the English keyboard installed as a second keyboard language, which I can then switch to as needed using the <shift><alt> hot key or the language element on the taskbar. The problem is that I see I need to set the preferred language order in Settings so that English is at the top of the list, so that my Windows menus, etc are in English. I have Danish installed as an additional language for the keyboard. But I do not see how it is possible to specify that Danish should be the preferred (default on startup) keyboard while English is the preferred language for Windows. I hope this is still possible to do. Thanks for any help!
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It's probably not a big deal, but since you're asking, it must be affecting you in one way or another. And it does work in Windows 11 like Windows 10.
Could you provide some screenshots of yours? Maybe I can find out some details.
In addition to the one I posted in my previous reply, here are 2 more.
I thank you very much for trying to help out here. I am rather busy with many things, and might or might not find the time to reproduce the various scenarios not working for me, and provide you with the screen shots. If my explanations so far do not make clear what I am not being able to do with Windows 11, then either I am misunderstanding a setting somewhere, or we will need to wait until I find the time to provide screen shots. When I mentioned in the last post that it is no big thing to me, what I mean is that there is a work around for me; I just need to remember to manually set the language on my keyboard when I start my PC up each time. And I do not know how to explain what I am struggling with any clearer than I already have done so far in the previous posts.
Basically, once again, it is this:
This was no problem to set up in Windows 10, but I haven't found a way to set up both of the above in Windows 11.
But thanks again for all the help.
This issue is not complicated and just to check some settings.
That being said, I fully understand you, if you still need help in the future, feel free to come back.
Hi once again.
Well, I seem to have found how to do it in Windows 11, to get it to work as I had in Windows 10. It is really not so obvious. So I think I now have things as they were.
For the benefit of anyone else in the same situation, what I just did now is to go the the Language settings, where I have both English and Danish installed, with English on top to be the preferred language (so that I have my Windows menus and all apps in English). From the English selection, I found out just now that I could go into the keyboard setup specific for the English language selection, and here I could select additional keyboard layouts to be associated with the English language selection. This is what I had in Windows 10 but could not until now find the way to set it up in Windows 11..
So now I have both English and Danish keyboard associated with the English language, and I have only the Danish keyboard associated with the Danish language. Maybe I don't even need the latter anymore. And I think this will now let me keep the language as English but the keyboard as Danish.
Thanks again for the help, and prodding me to keep looking for the solution!
Thanks for the further observations you shared.
We found that we overlooked the most important point, which is the point you recently mentioned, which is the keyboard layout for the language.
In addition, based on the idea you provided, the order of keyboard layouts can actually be adjusted by manually deleting the original first-ranked keyboard layout after adding additional keyboard layouts, as shown below.
Perhaps this is exactly how the product team envisioned it when designing.
