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

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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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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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Anonymous

2023-10-02T14:38:47+00:00

I had to add an "/Online" (and quotes) to it otherwise Powershell/CMD would always return me an "Error 87 prompt".

Dism /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:"D:\Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-zh-cn-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab"

Installed it, wouldn't work, only after manually adding Chinese input from Language & Region settings and running the script at the same time it would finally download.

Many thanks for your help!
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Anonymous

2023-09-19T06:13:05+00:00

Hello,

I got the same problem. And my resolution is to install the update package offline.

First of all you need to get the offline package from the following Link according to your system version.

If you don`t know your system version exactly. Run the command "winver".

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/windows-11-language-packs

After you download the .ISO file, extract the necessary file about language from the .ISO file. like:

Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-zh-cn-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab

zh-cn stands for chinese.

At last run the DISM command to install the language basic package. like:

Dism /Add-Package /PackagePath:%filepath%Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-zh-cn-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab

After package installed, you can typing chinese.

Or you can try to fix the update by modify the register, Please follow this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/deployment/chinese-ime-dictionaries-not-ready
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Anonymous

2023-09-16T20:40:06+00:00

You say "turn Compatibility on, if you are on, please turn it off."

It's confusing. ON or OFF?
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Anonymous

2023-09-10T14:34:16+00:00

Still not fixed. Amazing, uh, Microsoft?
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