Why is Afrikaans Keyboard randomly installed on Windows 11?

Question

I've done some searching and this seems to be a common problem. It is not included under settings in my list of languages and keyboards, but when I installed another language it magically appeared. I never used Afrikaans or any app that uses Afrikaans. This is a new laptop. I have English and Chinese Simplified keyboards installed.

Answer 1

Here is an article that contains a correct solution. Other people edit registry keys and do other unnecessary unsafe system changes. This works much better.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/the-afiikaans-keyboard-layout-is-automatically/71d635e0-472b-4e03-b440-52e801ab97e5

Press Start then search Powershell Right Click then Run as administrator Paste the command below then hit Enter: $UserLanguage = New-WinUserLanguageList en-US After that, Paste the command below then hit Enter: Set-WinUserLanguageList $UserLanguage

(Answer from John DeV)

I found that restarting the machine is unnecessary.

In the $UserLanguage = New-WinUserLanguageList en-US portion, one can supply the languages in comma-separated format

eg, $UserLanguage = New-WinUserLanguageList en-US,es-MX