Windows 11: Fix Can't Remove Keyboard Language From Windows 11 Language Settings & Taskbar

Windows 11: How to Remove extra languages from keyboard layout,Windows 11: How to remove the extra unwanted language keyboard layout on the taskbar, Windows 11: Fix Unable to Delete additional language In language settings, Fix Can't remove a Keyboard layout Language in Windows 11
Step 1) Use this command- This will remove all languages except US English
$1 = New-WinUserLanguageList en-US
Set-WinUserLanguageList $1
Restart your PC
Now you can add the language which you want
Step 2) Use the registry editor
Create a backup first
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload

[loveletslive]

THANK you. Windows 11 bugged and had two languages to choose from in the language bar but only one showed in the settings so I couldn't uninstall it. Step 1 of your guide worked perfectly. :)

[timabid]

Didn't work for me. All languages except English are deleted in the Settings, but they're still visible and can be used from the Taskbar.

[sentinelaenow]

Doing as you said step by step, worked perfectly. Thank you very much!

[Delijohn]

This FINALLY fixed my issue... I had it for months and no matter how many tricks I did, It was coming back with extra languages.. thanks!

[PModesto]

Unfortunately it did not worked for me, i'm really mad about Microsoft.
I only have one language on settings menu, but have three keyboard layouts no task bar, i have tried everything, and nothing worked, every time i setup the language i want it automatically creates the other two after restart.

[NicolasWegher]

It didnt work permanetly in my case. Tried both methods, but when restarting the 4 keyboard languages appear again.
Any other idea?

[carsten-giese]

How can i remove ONLY the additional keyboard layouts? I need to keep the different languages for a couple of reasons, but not the keyboards.

[mcgomfer]

I've followed all the steps, and at first it seems like it's removed the unwanted languages, but later if I reboot on logon screen and on the taskbar it shows the language symbol, and when I click on it, it still hast the 2 languages, even though I have already removed it. How do I fix this?

[blackietolucky]

Thank you, I've had this reoccurring issue when my language would keep switching, and it got very annoying. So, I appreciate this a lot.

[whocalms]

I'm trying to remove the en-US keyboard so that I can only have the English (United States) United States-International keyboard and the Hebrew (Standard) keyboard. Do you know if there is a way to do this permanently? The en-US keyboard is not listed as an installed keyboard in my language settings. I can install and uninstall it, but it would be nice to not have to do that every time I turn on my computer. Thank you

[stavrosspiridopoulos]

It worked perfectly. I needed tto remove UK english layout but couldn't find it in settings. This was the way to do it! Thank you man!

[cookiemonster]

Any idea how I can do this for windows 7? I'm not too sure what to do in the registry editor

[LoneWolf-kklq]

Both methods didnot work for me, sir. Is there any more I can do to remove unwanted language on the taskbar (still not in languages list)?

[launchpadmcquack]

when i put in the second command i get "Cannot bind argument to parameter 'LanguageList' because it is null."

[georgiossagias]

Hi all, I had the same issue and only the following solution worked for me.
I installed only the languages that I needed and deleted the languages that the system would let me delete from >Language settings<
Then it was showing me 2 times the same language (Spanish) on the language bar and English - United Kingdom that I could not remove.

I went to:
Settings > Time & language > Language & region
Scrolled down and selected: > Administrative language settings
Tab: Administrative
Selected: Copy settings

Ticked on both:
Welcome screen and system accounts
New user accounts

[jenabboorsman]

Thanks a lot, but i have a question, what is that back up, why did we do that ?

[robertogallardo]

Thanks a lot! Pretty straight forward. 😃

[NisseCrusader]

Tyvm man, this was the only way to remove the other language for me.

[liorhamovitz]

Thank you so much!!! I've been struggling with this for so long

[JesusPerez-mxsq]

After following the 2 steps, I still have the Spanish keyboard input. I have the Windows set to English by default, but there is no way to remove the Spanish input keyboard. Any solution for this?