Switching keyboard layouts system-wide, not app by app?

Is there a way to do this?

Damn Windows, this is so annoying.

No one knows it, is it not possible at all, or no one uses Windows 7 anymore?

That's all clear Ranger4, what'm asking in 2017 is this (what someone asked back in 2010): windows 7 - How to switch the KeyboardLayout for all Application at once - Super User

Maybe there is a solution since then.

There is a partial solution.
You right click on the layout menu at the task bar and select Settings.
Change the default keyboard and hit ok.
Every new program that you open will work on the selected keyboard.
Already opened programs will work keyboard on the previous keyboard. Change the layout menu at the task bar.

Megahertz07 said:

There is a partial solution.
You right click on the layout menu at the task bar and select Settings.
Change the default keyboard and hit ok.
Every new program that you open will work on the selected keyboard.
Already opened programs will work keyboard on the previous keyboard. Change the layout menu at the task bar.

It doesn't seem to work for my case , my default input language is in JP and whenever I open new program , it will still be in English (US). I have to manually switch to JP .

Megahertz07 said:

There is a partial solution.
You right click on the layout menu at the task bar and select Settings.
Change the default keyboard and hit ok.

I don't quite understand what do you mean. change to what? Default is English, as it should be. The behavior I want to accomplish is Alt+Shift to change the layout between default and non-default layouts system-wide (logical), not on a per application basis (nonsense).

Anyone?

OK, I don't have much expertise with Windows 8 and onward, but do newer versions of Windows have this same annoyance with the keyboard layouts, or perhaps they have solved the issue? If nothing else, this might be a good reason to upgrade.