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
    2023-06-07T17:36:39+00:00

    Still not fixed after half a year?

    Having a similar issue that emerged recently. Don't know what triggered it. Not sure if it has anything to do with uninstalling McAfee.

    Issue: The Pinyin input character suggestion panel doesn't show up. Removed and tried reinstalling the Chinese Language pack again. And the downloading of 'Basic Typing' stuck somewhere between 70% - 80%.

    Anyone can report if it also happens to other languages?

    Workaround (personal): Downloaded Sougou Pinyin and using it as a substitution now. Works fine in MS Word, didn't try in other MS Office Suite software but supposedly should also work fine?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-14T07:30:39+00:00

    I solved.

    If you want to install the en-us language pack...

    1. Download Windows11 Languages and Optional Fetures iso from Visual Studio Subscription.
    2. Double click and mount iso file.
    3. Search language pack cab file in LanguagesAndOptionalFeatures folder.
    • Microsoft-Windows-Client-Language-Pack_x64_en-us.cab
    • Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab
    • Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Handwriting-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab
    • Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Speech-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab
    • Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-TextToSpeech-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab
    1. Copy and paste these cab files to any folder.
    2. Open powershell as administrator.
    3. Run command below. Add-WindowsPackage -Online -PackagePath Microsoft-Windows-Client-Language-Pack_x64_en-us.cab Add-WindowsPackage -Online -PackagePath Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab Add-WindowsPackage -Online -PackagePath Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Handwriting-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab Add-WindowsPackage -Online -PackagePath Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Speech-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab Add-WindowsPackage -Online -PackagePath Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-TextToSpeech-en-us-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab $LanguageList = Get-WinUserLanguageList $LanguageList.Add("en-us") Set-WinUserLanguageList $LanguageList -force
    4. Change Language & region!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-06T11:07:39+00:00

    I was tortured by this same issue for some days, never ended downloading Chinese pinyin without success. Finally, by reinstalling windows 11 and fix this nightmare!

    To share with all you victims:

    setting --> system -->recovery--->reset the pc

    used 1.5 hrs by wifi reinstallation.

    After that I immediately add the language chinese simplified, still not succeed, downloading stuck.

    Then I restart the windows and it does some updating. Do the download again, the status line proceeds slowly but about 5 mins it finally installed "microsoft pinyin" keyboard!!!

    I guess it may be faster by using LAN wire instead of wifi? Not sure someone can try if LAN wire is available.

    hope this helps, good luck!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-09T14:28:24+00:00

    Finally solved, thank you!

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