Windows 10: IME doesn't work stating "Simplified Chinese IME dictionaries are not ready yet" on Windows 11

My wife is running Windows 11 Home, 22000.348. I installed the Chinese Pinyin Keyboard, but when you switch IME to type, "Simplified Chinese IME dictionaries are not ready yet" shows up, points me to Language Settings. And it's a loop because there's no way to load the dictionary?There seems to be discussions from the past for folks on Windows 10 having similar issues, and there was one thread that discussed copying the dictionary file from Windows.old directory. But this PC not being upgraded from Windows 10, I don't have a Windows.old directory.Any tips on how to fix this?

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IME Simplified Chinese

I had Windows 7 and I updated online to Windows 10. I write and use Mandarin Simplified Chinese. Before
Microsoft had an excellent Input Method Editor ( IME) for Chinese but most disappointingly the IME in Windows 10 is incomplete. So now there is no Radical Dictionary function where you can search for the Radical and then find all the characters
that use that Radical by the number of strokes. Secondly it had an IME pad where you could draw the character with the mouse and it would suggest possible matches for you.

So I ‘ve been waiting in the hope that a fix would come to at least upgrade the IME to what it had been but so far nothing. Please can you tell me if Microsoft intend to restore the IME and when it might happen?

 

IME Simplified Chinese

Hi Taffy087 thanks for reply. No .I have read them but they are not relevant to what I m asking about. I can input the Chinese using the IME but the Dictionary and the IME Pad are completely missing from Windows 10. They were really useful when you want
to find a character and you don't know it or how it is pronounced.

 

IME Simplified Chinese

are any of these any use?