I want one keyboard. How to remove ghost keyboards, to stop Windows 10 changing to them

Question

I want one keyboard. I have installed, according to Windows 10 settings one keyboard. But in the Windows taskbar, I have three keyboards that windows keep switching between. How to remove these ghost keyboards? in the early version of Windows 10 was the settings in Control Panel, which has been removed now and pointing to new settings.

Please have a look at the screenshot:

https://paste.pics/4ba726a7eed9fceb6f5c19054e3e23ae

Can you please help?

Thank you

Answer 1

Hi ZigZagIT

I am Dave, I will help you with this, I presume you just want to retain the UK English keyboard, is that correct?

1

Right click your Start Button, choose Powershell (admin)

Paste this commend into Powershell and hit Enter:

$1 = New-WinUserLanguageList en-GB

Then, Paste this commend into Powershell and hit Enter:

Set-WinUserLanguageList $1

Close Powershell

2

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.

Answer 2

Hi Dave, I love your solution.

In my case, I'm living in Canada, but I like to keep US keyboard and Vietnamese Telex keyboard only. Windows always reinstall Canadian, multilingual and French keyboards even I remove them many times. How can I "replace" your instructions above in case of 2 keyboards?

Thanks.

Answer 3

Hi Dave,

Your solution works.

However, I need to repeat it a few times.

For other users, I am using my own keyboard template (UK + PL) not a stock one, and all is working now perfectly.

Finally, no stock keyboard was reinstalled by Windows anymore!!!

Thank you,

Jac

Answer 4

I've found the solution by searching "Configure the default keyboard layout during login".

My situation is simpler: identifying keyboard codes from Microsoft website, then delete those unwanted keyboard layouts in the registry: HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload.

Then reboot.