Language in Windows11

Question

In Settings Language & Region I see:

The Taskbar settings show this when I press <kbd>Win+space</kbd>

Where does French and Dutch come from? Can I remove these?

Answer 1

btw de-DE is not the language I'm looking for. hint: i live in Switzerland

Answer 2

great. i see it was beneficial i got a computer science degree to set the language on one of the most used os in the world.

Answer 3

Hi theking2

1

Click your Start Button, then just type regedit and press Enter to open the Registry Editor

Click View and make sure 'Address Bar' is turned on.

Paste this into the Address Bar at the top and hit Enter.

HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload

In the left pane, right click and delete the Preload key (folder)

Close the Registry Editor and restart (not shut down) your PC.

2

If that does not solve the problem:

Click your Start Button, then just type powershell

On the resulting list, right click PowerShell and select 'Run as Administrator'

Paste this commend into Powershell and hit Enter:

$1 = New-WinUserLanguageList en-US

Paste this commend into Powershell and hit Enter:

$1.Add("de-DE")

Then, Paste this commend into Powershell and hit Enter:

Set-WinUserLanguageList $1

Close Powershell and restart (not shut down) your PC