Cannot remove English keyboard option from language bar

Question

I use the language bar to switch between Chinese and French keyboards. However lately an English keyboard option also appeared in the popup. I didn't add it myself and I cannot find any way to remove it. For some reasons, it doesn't show up in the Settings page (see screenshot below). Any idea what could be the reason?

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Edit

This is what I have in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Preload
    1    REG_SZ    0000040c
    2    REG_SZ    00000804
    3    REG_SZ    e0200804
    4    REG_SZ    e0210804

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Substitutes
    0000040c    REG_SZ    a001040c

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Toggle
    Language Hotkey    REG_SZ    1
    Hotkey    REG_SZ    1
    Layout Hotkey    REG_SZ    3

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '12 at 17:26

Yes, there is missing US keyboard. Run this command from cmd.exe or add value below to registry. Then open taskmgr (ctrl + shift + esc), kill process explorer.exe and by "File" -> "New task" start again. Then remove US keyboard, the option will be there.

reg add "hkcu\keyboard layout\Preload" /v 5 /t REG_SZ /d 00000405

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Preload 5 REG_SZ 00000405

Cannot remove English keyboard option from language bar

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