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

Hello, I have exactly the same issue as described with the "Basic Typing" download that does not finish (in my case for languages English - US and Spanish - Spain). Windows 11 22H2 with latest updates.

The proposed solution with "dism" command did not work for me however, with or without rebooting after its successful completion.

Are there any other actions that you have performed that may have helped to solve the issue?

Thank you

Dear Nicolas_695, Believe me, I totally understand your frustration and helplessness - I was on the same boat and even consider to bite the bullet and reinstall Windows. Unfortunately, I still don't understand what has happened (only Microsoft people may be able to find out - and I don't think they care). My problem began when the language pack I was using (in my case, Simplified Chinese) was acting strangely (mixed characters with traditional Chinese), so I thought uninstall and reinstall the language package could help - big mistake - it triggered the reported "never finished installation problems" since, which brought all of us, the victims, here.

When I read encouraging report from Yuan X about his successful experience, I was extremely excited - not I thought it would be easy, but because I knew it could be done.. Following his advice, I failed a few times, but eventually succeeded (can you image how happy I was - a monkey off my back). Since I don't know why the problem was to begin with, and why the fix worked for me finally, I really can't tell you what to do. The only thing I can pass on to you is that when I run "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth" under CMD (must be in "administrator's mode"), it took a LONG time (hours) to finish (i.e., the control return to CMD prompt) - and that was the time it worked for me. Before this, I cut off the long "dism" run after I found it finished all the patches (by browsing the log) - I am not sure whether this is relevant, but those efforts to terminate prematurely failed.

I am sorry I can't be more precise than what I have offered (as in the "blind men and an elephant", we don't really know what the elephant really looks like). I can only ask you to try it a few more times, knowing some of your fellow victims have succeeded after all. If you decide to give it up, you can always do what I was planning to do as a last resort: to reinstall Windows with the option to retain all user files. You, however, will have to reinstall all apps (e.g., Chrome), and reconfigure all settings. Wish you the best of luck (and hope you will report your success back to the Forum later?) JP

Hello, I have exactly the same issue as described with the "Basic Typing" download that does not finish (in my case for languages English - US and Spanish - Spain). Windows 11 22H2 with latest updates.

The proposed solution with "dism" command did not work for me however, with or without rebooting after its successful completion.

Are there any other actions that you have performed that may have helped to solve the issue?

Thank you

A've also tried dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth multiple times with no success, even though I run it with admin privileges and wait for it to finish every time (the first time it took about an hour, but after that it's been taking a few minutes at most). I don't have any updates left to apply. The original problems with Greek and Japanese persist, with Japanese being practically unusable.

Hello, thank you for your reply. I have tried again the steps described by Yuan X, with admin privileges and rebooting after each step (including waiting for long reboot times to complete, as described by JeffPan), but it still did not work. It seems like either someone finds the root cause and a corresponding solution, either it will have to wait for Microsoft to fix the bug in a future Windows 11 patch/update.