how can I manual start the TextInputHost.exe

yangjia 41

my system is win10 enterprise LTSC

I want to manually start the TextInputHost.exe without starting explorer.exe,what should I do?
Thanks a lot for your help.

Reza-Ameri 17,011 Reputation points

2022-07-14T14:13:28.267+00:00

Why do you want to perform this action?

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S.Sengupta 21,391 Reputation points MVP

2022-07-15T00:07:32.68+00:00

Open Task Manager > Services > Locate TextInputHost.exe > Right click select Start
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yangjia 41 Reputation points

2022-07-15T02:04:59.287+00:00

thank you for your help ,but it's not exist TextInputHost.exe in task manager service

S.Sengupta 21,391 Reputation points MVP

2022-07-16T01:41:51.25+00:00

Have you installed Windows Feature Experience Pack?
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MotoX80 35,046 Reputation points

2022-07-16T02:34:42.277+00:00
Open Task Manager > Services > Locate TextInputHost.exe > Right click select Start

The .exe names are not included in "task manager > services" in either Windows 10 or 11.

TextInputHost.exe is not running as a service on either my Win 11 laptop, or my Win10 VM.

C:\>tasklist /svc | findstr -i textinputhost TextInputHost.exe 13908 N/A

I agree with Reza-Ameri's question, Why do you want to perform this action? What is the real problem that you are trying to solve? Did the process crash? Why can't you just log off and log back on?

Have you tried to open a command prompt and just run the program?
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yangjia 41 Reputation points

2022-07-19T06:54:46.953+00:00

I start TextInputHost.exe because I want to use Shell Launcher V1 to replace the default Windows 10 shell with Chrome.exe. But when I type Chinese Pinyin in Chrome text input, the screen won’t show Chinese word prompts. I compare using default win10 shell and Shell Launcher V1 which TextInputHost.exe doesn't start in task manager. So I guess that the function of Chinese word prompt is with TextInputHost .exe.
I use CMD to run Textinputhost.exe and the process carsh.

MotoX80 35,046 Reputation points

2022-07-19T11:12:10.957+00:00

I don't have any experience with Shell Launcher, so maybe another forum user can help you.

Have you tried MSEdge instead of Chrome? Or some other program?

On my Win11 laptop and a Win10 VM, the command line for TextInputHost.exe is:

"C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\TextInputHost.exe" -ServerName:InputApp.AppXjd5de1g66v206tj52m9d0dtpppx4cgpn.mca

I have never seen anything like that before. So I checked and it's parent process is svchost.exe which is hosting these services: BrokerInfrastructure, DcomLaunch, PlugPlay,Power, SystemEventsBroker

I don't think that you will be able to just launch TextInputHost.exe by itself.

Have you tried Shell Launcher V2?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/iot-enterprise/kiosk-mode/shell-launcher
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