Remove windows display language from prefered languages list/ from keyboards list (Windows 10)

levavft 1 Reputation point
2021-10-12T11:42:48.287+00:00

My language setup is like this:
Windows display language:
English (United States)
Preferred languages:
English (United States)
Hebrew
Korean

But, the Korean keyboard has two states - Korean & English
This is actually quite handy, since using Alt+Shift to rotate between three languages is not particularly natural.
So, I would like to simply use Alt+Shift to swap between Korean and Hebrew (and then inside Korean, Right Alt swaps between English and Korean)
That being said, I also want to keep my display language.

Is there a way to do this? I've tried removing English-US (409) from multiple places in the registry, it always comes back after a restart.
On a related note - is there a simple way to detect / change the current input language programmatically? I've tried all sorts of scripts (usually in AHK) and nothing seems to be reliable.

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  1. Limitless Technology 39,916 Reputation points
    2021-10-14T09:34:20.807+00:00

    Hello Levavft-4139,

    Thank you for your question and for getting in touch.
    Unfortunately this problem is common, but I recommend that you check the links below, which will deal precisely with how to change the display language within Windows 10:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-remove-keyboard-layout-on-windows-10/9f021621-0e93-401e-a086-835e942b967e

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-the-input-and-display-language-settings-in-windows-12a10cb4-8626-9b77-0ccb-5013e0c7c7a2


    If the answer is helpful, please vote positively and accept as an answer.


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