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Japanese IME disappearing or other magical tricks (Windows 8.1)
A funny thing happened to me on my way to switching from English to Japanese using Microsoft's Japanese IME. It disappeared from the task bar. (I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling it to no avail in the control panel.) One further note is that this exact same thing happened to me when I was using Vista, and I ended up downloading Google's Japanese IME, which did work at that time, but it seems that Google has stopped development so it no longer works for 8.1.
Another odd thing happened at that time and it has happened this time as well. When I go to update another program and I am taken to the black window with the usual warning from Microsoft saying, that Windows does not recognize this program are you sure you want to continue, I see the IME in the corner of the blackened screen. I can click on it, but I can:t get it back to the task bar.
Has anyone every encountered this problem?: