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Actually, the solution is quite simple and requires no registry editing!

• Go to to Region and Language (previously named Language preferences), click on English (United States) and go to Options.




• If you see "US Keyboard" there, remove it, and you're done.




• HOWEVER, if you do not see it there, then click on Add a keyboard, add "US keyboard", then remove that keyboard and you're done.

I figured this out after some trial and error trying out various things, I had the same issue.

Theres is two places for keyboard configuration in windows 10,
control panel -> Language

The other is in setting just like your screenshot

Makes the changes there too, it should fix the problem.

I didn't have 409 entry in the registry (see accepted anwer). The steps I took to remove English (US) from the quick selection menu:

1. Open "Language Preferences" from the quick selection menu.


2. Add English (US) language.


3. Remove English (US) language.

Tip: In Control PanelAll Control Panel ItemsLanguageAdvanced settings -> Change language bar hot keys you can set hot key action for "Between input languages" to "(None)" to avoid accidental keyboard layout switch.

1. Control Panel


2. Clock, Language, and Region


3. Language


4. Change input methods


5. Advanced settings


6. Override for default input method


7. Choose your preferred layout (instead of "Use language list")


8. Save

Mikel's answer above fixes this.... but just in case this reappears for you (as it did for me): Do you perhaps have a custom AutoHotkey shortcut to change keyboard layouts?

The problem was that my AutoHotkey script contained the following lines of code:

; This should be replaced by whatever your native language is. See 

; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd318693%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

; for the language identifiers list.

el := DllCall("LoadKeyboardLayout", "Str", "00000408", "Int", 1)

en := DllCall("LoadKeyboardLayout", "Str", "00000409", "Int", 1

So while in my desktop this would work beautifully and switch from English (UK keyboard layout) to Greek (GR keyboard layout) and vice versa, on my laptop that has a US keyboard, this script would be responsible for the extra layouts appearing out of the blue on my language switcher.

I hope this helps!

This is not the permanent fix, but a handy batch file to replace manually adding en-US and removing it.

Remove_en-US.xml:

<gs:GlobalizationServices xmlns:gs="urn:longhornGlobalizationUnattend">



    <!--User List-->

    <gs:UserList>

        <gs:User UserID="Current"/>

    </gs:UserList>



    <!--input preferences--> 

    <gs:InputPreferences>

        <!--add en-US keyboard input-->

        <gs:InputLanguageID Action="add" ID="0409:00000409"/>

        <!--remove en-US keyboard input-->

        <gs:InputLanguageID Action="remove" ID="0409:00000409"/>

    </gs:InputPreferences>



</gs:GlobalizationServices>

Remove_en-US.bat:

control intl.cpl,, /f:"%CD%Add_en-US.xml"

Then you can just run Remove_en-US.bat to remove the layout. I have a shortcut to this batch file in my startup programs as well.

Here, 0409 is the locale ID and 00000409 is the keyboard layout values. For the list of the locale ID:keyboard layout value see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-8.1-and-8/hh825682(v=win.10).

Actually it seems the issue is also with the same key under your actual user profile (HKEY_USERSS-1-5-21-...Keyboard LayoutPreload), not just HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTKeyboard LayoutPreload.

I can replicate this pretty consistently - when I add a key 00000429 (Persian) for example there and reboot, I get the Persian keyboard automatically added, and when I delete it and reboot, the Persian is no longer there.

In sum, you may want to make sure that you don't have undesired languages in neither HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTKeyboard LayoutPreload nor HKEY_USERSS-1-5-21-...Keyboard LayoutPreload.

Windows 10 anniversary edition contains a new "feature" where it assumes that both regional and language settings come with a mandatory keyboard layout. Those layouts cannot be removed via the settings GUI.

But I was able to overcome it via PowerShell with a script like this:

$1=New-WinUserLanguageList en-US

$1.Add("nl-NL")

$1.Add("de-DE")

Set-WinUserLanguageList $1

Copy-paste it into a PowerShell window.

The demo above configures the US layout as a default with the additional NL and BE layouts. Adjust as needed.