Windows 10: Windows 10 trying to install keyboard features

hello every one ,

I cannot stop windows 10 trying to install keyboard features , like Spanish typing.
the only option I have is to cancel the installation (probably downloading) at this time ,but after a while ,
it starts again.
is there any option to prevent this attempt once and for all?

thank you in advance.

:)

 

Trying to install W 10, the "CHOOSE YOUR KEYBOARD LAYOUT" SCREEN ABSOLUTELY FREEZES THE COMPUTER

My keyboard IS wireless. Right after church, I will go retrieve a wired keyboard. In the meantime, I will pray. Thank you for the suggestion. I will let you know what happens after I get wired.

Harold Heiple

 

Trying to install W 10, the "CHOOSE YOUR KEYBOARD LAYOUT" SCREEN ABSOLUTELY FREEZES THE COMPUTER

After getting through about 3 steps, the "CHOOSE YOUR KEYBOARD LAYOUT" appears on blue screen with "US" and 11 other languages listed. At that point, I have no mouse and no control of any kind to select "US" or go forward, backward or sideways. For 3
days, I have been turning it off and on. I always get: (1) Small Windows icon in middle of a blue screen with the circling dots below; (2) then blue screen with 12-15 lines of unreadable fuzzy text/figures; then it goes black; and then (1) and (2) repeat,
and then I get the blue screen, with CHOOSE YOUR KEYBOARD LAYOUT" , at which time I can do absolutely nothing, except turn off the power.

If I could get back to square one, I would uninstall 10 and live happily ever after. Can anyone help?

Thank you

Harold

 

Hello, globar. Welcome to TenForums.

Does your keyboard show up in Devices and Printers as shown in the tutorial below? If not, you may have to turn off driver update for your PC so Windows doesn't update that driver. Be aware that it deprives other driver updates, so every now and then (once a month, quarter?) you may want to turn this on so they do so. Save that older driver somewhere in case you have to load it again. Hopefully some day they'll make it so we can pick and choose that individually for every driver.

Turn On or Off Device Driver Automatic Installation in Windows 10 Windows 10 Windows Update Activation Tutorials

Hope that helps.

 

Hello HippsieGypsie , thanks for helping , but that didn't work. I followed the tutorial instructions but nothing happened.

 

You're welcome. Sorry to see that didn't work for you although it should have.

To be sure > It is downloading an updated driver for your keyboard, correct?

Did you try both options in the tutorial?

 

No it's not downloading a driver , See the picture? Now these features , you can only cancel them at that moment. After a while , it starts again

 

My apology. My bad. It's extra features you have. You must have a multi-language Windows edition or installed other languages?

What you need to do is eliminate those languages.

Open Settings app > Choose "Time & language" > Choose "Region & language" > Click/tap on a language and choose a choice.

Language - Add, Remove, and Change in Windows 10 Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

 

I know I make it difficult, but I need these languages . I'm mailing in these languages and there are necessary applications installed, that do not work properly without them. Thanks for your time any way.

 

Maybe @Kari can help you. He does the same thing.

 

In case you do not need language packs of those additional languages, adding them to Windows language list is wrong method to get their keyboard layouts installed. Adding a language automatically downloads and installs two optional features (typing and OCR), the term "optional" being somewhat misleading in this case. There's nothing you can do to prevent it.

I can't understand why don't you just let them install? Combined size of those two features is, depending on language, between 250 and 350 MB which really is an insignificant amount of storage space used.

If you just want to add a keyboard language, correct method is to add it to your existing display language. Click display language (top most in language list), select Options:





Select Add a keyboard, select the input language you need:





That's it, no additional features will be installed. If you compare above two screenshots, you'll notice that as I do not need Spanish language pack (display language), I've not added it my language list (first screenshot), but as I occasionally need Spanish input language I've just added its keyboard to my current display language English (second screenshot). No Typing and OCR components for Spanish were / are installed on my machine.

You can now remove additional languages from language list

 

Hello Kari , thanks for answering.

I do need all the installed languages.
I didn't try to prevent the installation when I first saw it, but it never ends the installation.
Every time it starts and it stops after a while, saying that something happened and it cannot finish it.
After that happened numerous times , then I started to find a way to prevent it.