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.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Input and language

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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
    2023-05-23T06:45:23+00:00

    this is really frustrating

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-27T10:20:21+00:00

    For those who tried methods in this thread but still failed, you can install the language packs manually.

    link to the guide of manual installation of language packs:

    https://www.ntlite.com/community/index.php?threads/tutorial-integration-adding-of-language-pack-files-into-an-image-windows-10-2009-20h2.1830/

    The thread of the link is not about this problem, but the method within works for this problem.

    What you need to do with the link:

    1. follow the guide to download necessary .cab files and one .esd file.
    2. convert .esd to .cab (method in the link).
    3. install all .cab files.

    Some things to pay attention to: 1. you need to know your windows version (not windows 11 or windows 11 22H2, but more detailed, i.e., OS build, such as 22621) to select and download the correct language pack version.

    1. If you do not know how to install .cab files, search online and you will be taught to use command prompt to install them (be sure to run it in administrator).

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-29T07:15:44+00:00

    Computer industry is incrediblely over-paid cause so many "engineers" join the industry , now ,broken softwares and techincal debts are everywhere. hope one day the industry will back to what it's real value. programming is nothing but a common job, so that those "engineers" will not generate technical gabage and leave the industry.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-29T10:24:49+00:00

    Computer industry is incrediblely over-paid cause so many "engineers" join the industry , now ,broken softwares and techincal debts are everywhere. hope one day the industry will back to what it's real value. programming is nothing but a common job, so that those "engineers" will not generate technical gabage and leave the industry.

    Well now, don't be so rude please, I was a software engineer intern at Microsoft 11 years ago and I can tell you a lot of smart people and quality engineers work there. Very often the problem is not in anyone's programming skills, but in managing complexity and having to meet deadlines.

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