Windows 10: How to remove sole keyboard layout without removing corresponding language pack?

Problem Summary

I can't remove sole Keyboard Layout from English United States Language Pack.

Please, be careful to distinguish between "Keyboard Layout" and "Language Pack"

How to remove it? or at least remove from the list of input methods accessed via Win+Space shortcut?





See the button grayed out





Background

I have three language packs installed: English system default, Korean, Japanese. Of course I need all of them.


But I don't need US QWERTY keyboard because I can type English with Korean keyboard. in case you cannot understand, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_input_keys#Han/Yeong_한/영

Also I do not want US QWERTY keyboard because it annoys me while switching keyboard.




Switching win + space from Korean to Japanese is not a problem.

But for the opposite, I must switch to US keyboard first and to the Japanese.





Removing English from Preferred languages is not an option. I need it because some apps have quirks with Korean.







Why not just let users set languages for individual UI/UX context? "Preferred languages" should be just "installed languages".

:)

 

Remove secondary keyboard language.

Hi Jacob,

Removing a keyboard layout can be done through Control Panel and
Settings. Before doing so, make sure that the language pack of your preferred keyboard layout is installed on your computer. To remove a keyboard layout through
Control Panel, here's how:

• Go to Control Panel. Under Clock, Language, and Region, click
  Add a language.
  
• Click the keyboard layout that you want to remove, then click Options
  > Remove.

To remove a keyboard layout through Settings, refer to these steps:

• Go to Settings > Time & language >
  Region & language.
• Click the keyboard layout that you want to delete, then click Remove.

Feel free to post back if you have further questions.

 

Can't (completely) remove language keyboard layout

Yup, no such luck. My next step will be to temporarily install another language as the system language (like English UK or something), and remove US English as the default language and the keyboard, and everything, and then reboot and install it again and see if that does anything....

But I am betting it won't. And my reason is because when I was inspired to make my own keyboard layout I downloaded one another person had made, whidch was based on English UK keyboard, and it did not work correctly for me so I uninstalled it (and have since improved, I think, upon what he had done,) and I just now realized that that keyboard, which was under English language and keyboard, is still in my list as well. When I had installed it then UK English had become one of the available languages, and I have since removed it from being active and so forht. So, basically I did to UK English what I am propsing to do for US English... and yet that old keyboard layout remains.

There has to be somewhere that Windows keeps references all the different keyboard layouts available for the different language packs installed.... The question is where is that and how to modify it?

 

Unable to remove a 'default' language/keyboard layout

Dear dalchina,
thank you for the reply, but I am probably missing something.
As you can see from the attached picture, language settings DOES NOT list the keyboard layout I want to remove (ENG INTL). So, how can I remove a layout that is not listed in the Language settings?

Gianluca