How to set default keyboard language to be different than default Windows language

Question

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!

Answer 1

This was a pain for a while. Very useful to document this solution. Thanks.