Solved Keyboard Layouts...

[omglolthxkpz]

Hi,
I have a Asus G73JH-A1 laptop with Windows 7 Home 64 Bit.

I use the English(Canada) keyboard layout and I don't need to have any other type of layouts but for some reason the Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) keeps on appearing and this takes up my Ctrl+Space shortcut and is really annoying.

When I open the dialog to change my input languages the keyboard does not appear and I have to add it before removing it.

The same problem happens with English(US) keyboard but less often.

If there is no way to uninstall, disable or whatever these keyboard, is there any way to add/remove them with a batch file or something? thanks!

 

[omglolthxkpz]

Seriously? anyone? help? please?

 

[omglolthxkpz]

Does that mean that my problem has no solution??

 

[omglolthxkpz]

someone help me plz :'(

 

[Adrenaline Seed]

Sounds like you just need to remove the Language bar from your task bar so it can no longer be accidentally set by whatever shortcuts or program is setting it. I had similar problems when the Language bar was on my taskbar.

 

[omglolthxkpz]

Thanks!
It looks like it works, I also deleted the entries in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Keyboard Layouts\"
(Of course i exported and saved them first just in case it causes a problem)
Thank you very much, now I can use intellisense again.

 

[omglolthxkpz]

No, it didn't work... :/

 

[arkhi]

Can you not change the shortcut instead in that Advanced Key Settings tab? Modify what option your shortcut does.

 

[omglolthxkpz]

No, I tried that, the shortcut doesn't appear in the list

 

[arkhi]

Open the start menu and search for "Lpksetup". Type the whole word. See if you can uninstall Chinese using that.

 

[arkhi]

If that doesn't work, open the registry "HKCU\Keyboard Layout\Preload" and post what values you have there.

EDIT: Nvm, I found the value for English (Canada). On that key there should only be two values: One that has data 00001009 and the other 00000404. Delete the key with the 00000404 data and restart your PC.

Let me know the outcome.

 

[omglolthxkpz]

There is only English.
I think I found some kind of solution but I don't know how it will affect the system...
I went in the registry and found everything referring to Chinese and deleted them, whey were in

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Keyboard Layout\DosKeybCodes]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Keyboard Layouts]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Keyboard Layout\DosKeybCodes]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Keyboard Layouts]

and when I checked in
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet] there was no Chinese.

After I deleted everything, the language bar disappeared (since I only had 1 left)
Is there another solution? Because I think that my solution is kinda harsh

 

[arkhi]

i edited my post. check the registry for the value i mentioned

EDIT: and yeah.. that solution is kinda harsh >_<

 

[omglolthxkpz]

I only have: (Default) (value not set) and 1 (00001009) and that's what I had even before I deleted Chinese entries. (This is why they don't show up in the Text Services and Input Languages)
btw sorry i didn't see there was a second page xD

 

[arkhi]

How about HKCU\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes?

BTW this pertains to the list generated by the language bar. I'm trying to find the 00000404 value which points to the Chinese (Taiwan) language. Pinning that means the end of your problems... well the end if you haven't found it already, anyway XD

 

[omglolthxkpz]

There is nothing in HKCU\Keyboard Layout\Substitutes, but I noticed something, when I deleted the Chinese entries and i went in "Text Services and Input Languages" I couldn't add Chinese, it didn't even appear in the list, so i think i really killed it lol

 

[omglolthxkpz]

Thank you very much!

 

[arkhi]

Oh well, you fixed it so it's alright. And yeah, you actually did kill it. It's basically unregistering the .dll file that corresponds to the keyboard layout, instead you opted for the more "direct" approach.

There should be no consequences except that Windows does not know it exists anymore, and you can't select that keyboard layout.

I was trying the "user" approach that way only the user will be affected and not the whole system. Also the whole point I was looking at HKCU instead of HKLM.

Just FYI though, if I remember it right, the actual file that makes that keyboard layout (Chinese) exist is C:\Windows\System32\KBDUS.dll




EDIT: [editting spree LOL XD] You're welcome

 

[omglolthxkpz]

Solution in this post: http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/183360-keyboard-layouts-2.html#post1586394

 

[omglolthxkpz]

[EDIT Yes it is the right file], but I didn't want to delete the file just in case it has other layouts in it