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
    2023-02-10T00:16:54+00:00

    Thank you, Mitchell - MSFT for an answer for Microsoft. As you can see, quite a lot of your users experienced the same language installation problem as I did (and still do). Personally, I am not familiar with the so-called "ISO File" and will be worried about what further else side-effect it can bring up (simply my ignorance? I am sure you won't guarantee it won't?)

    This is apparently a Microsoft bug. Can you contact the team in Microsoft about the symptom we experienced (the language pack is downloaded and installed fine, but then "Basic Tying" never finished "downloading" - hung!). If I am the person who implemented this system, I should be able to guess what happens from the symptoms, can't I?) . Please help - we (many) have spend too much time repeating the process.

    Thanks a lot

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-14T01:49:36+00:00

    Same issue here.

    struggling for 2 days.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-26T05:20:42+00:00

    Same thing here. Chinese packs wont download. Its been stuck like this for hours, and for the whole week I tried deleting and reinstalling the language, but it has just been stuck there for like almost a week, so... Please help

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  4. 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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