Windows 11 language's basic typing won't finish downloading

Anonymous
2022-12-10T10:19:56+00:00

There is a known issue that if you type Chinese characters in an English system environment, the word-searching bar would disappear while typing multiple Chinese characters in a row. This issue was never fixed and was very annoying. Today I tried to uninstall the Chinese language pack and wanted to do a reinstall, the language pack was downloaded just fine, but the basic typing was just stuck at the downloading phase and never goes to completion. I've been waited for more than 24 hours already.

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Anonymous
2023-06-30T04:39:22+00:00

Hey guys,

New here but was plagued by the exact same issue (Windows 11 ASUS ROG laptop) and managed to solve it with one of the mentioned solutions. Here is a TLDR and its working perfectly now for all languages for me.

Methods that did not work:
DISM fixes, restarts, regedits, ESD/CAB installations

Method that worked:1. Remove all language packs installed in Optional Features

2. Remove all secondary languages under Time and Language (Just leave the main one)

3. Run an In-Place Windows 11 upgrade (link provided below on how, might take quite a while involving multiple auto restarts. apps and files are not affected at all, read info in link)

4. Reinstall secondary languages, they should still take quite a long while but a tad under 45 minutes for me

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-run-in-place-upgrade-in-windows-11/4d469147-2747-4dcb-88a4-aae9273a4500

Hope it helps for those who are still stuck!

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-08T02:32:18+00:00

    I only managed to solve this by clean windows install and getting the keyboard installed before anything else.
    Beats spending hours trying to find a solution....

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-08T01:54:11+00:00

    Same problem and unable to download basic typing (Chinese, Traditional Hong Kong SAR)

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-07T00:18:43+00:00

    I am experiencing exactly the same problems as reported about not finishing downloading Simplified Chinese's "Baseic Typing". It has been stuck at about 70% downloading and won't advance any. I couldn't do anymore work with WIndows11. Is there a way that we reset/reinstall Window's Language package? (if not, my machine will be crippled forever???)

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-28T04:02:56+00:00

    Hi Flower Jun,

    Have you used the image file to repair it? Is the problem still there?

    Best regards,

    Mitchell - | Microsoft community support expert from MSFT

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