Custom hotkeys to change input language disappear frequently

Think I'm replying to myself here.   Not sure if anyone is still following this question.   My situation is still that the hotkeys are deleted when the PC goes to sleep but reinstated when I reboot from scratch.   Contacted Microsoft's Questions Desk for advice.   First tip was to delete the hkey in the Registry, which I explained I've done with the result above;  second tip - pay them either $99 or $149 to put the machine in warranty with Microsoft (it's 5 months old and in warranty with Dell - who are no good either) and they'd sort it for me.   Why?   Because it could be a software issue, an incompatibility or driver issue... and of course trying to fix it myself might make the problem worse.   Customer service?   I think not.

If anyone else is following this, perhaps you could post something soon to let others know whether it's work coming back here.   Cheers

Thanks for this it works... almost.

First, in Windows 8.1 there are a number of registry entries for the hotkeys.   You have to go through them all and delete all of the hotkey settings (if you open up the registry as described in the contribution you'll know what I mean - for XP it seems like the settings are made once, in Windows 8 it's for the machine but also for the current user.    In any case, if you understand how to do this in XP you'll find the right bits if you search around).

BUT I now have the problem that the hotkeys are sometimes still deleted.   I think it has to do with when the machine turns itself off - 'sleep' or whatever it's called.   It forgets to reload the hotkeys when it wakes up again.   Restart the machine by powering off and on, and the hotkeys reappear.   Any ideas how to deal with this?   Cheers, it'll make my day.

Hello,

try this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/36166-45-keys-input-languages#.

it helped me

Hi,

As I understand the issue, custom hotkeys to change input language disappear on the computer frequently. Please let me know if this is not correct.

I may need a few more information to understand the issue better.

1. What is the make and model number of the computer?
2. Do you get any error messages?

Method 1:

I would suggest you to refer the link and check if it helps.

Input method editors (IMEs)

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/input-method-editors-windows-8

Method 2:

If the issue persists you may update the driver \ software for keyboard from the manufacturer website and check if it helps.

Give this a go; I’m confident you will find what you need here. But if you face any further issue please reply back to this post and I'll be happy to assist you further.

As usual with Microsoft Support responses, this one is completely useless and just asks the user to waste time providing irrelevant information.

"What is the make and model number of the computer?" -- This is a completely irrelevant question. This is clearly a software issue, there are clearly hundreds of people affected by it...what are the chances they all use the same model of computer?

Updating the keyboard driver? Also irrelevant...this is not a hardware issue and is not specific to one type of keyboard.

However, the link is very useful. If you're using Win8 you can just press the start key and the space key simultaneously and that cycles through your languages. This isn't a great solution if you have a huge number of languages (5+) but I find it manageable with three languages.

I still have this problem, I will try to post here each month until the problem gets resolved. I will also write a post on my blog and share our experience there.