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

Hello, I was finally able to fix the issue by reinstalling Windows 11 ISO, then running again Windows update, and afterwards finally adding the “basic typing” for the languages I needed.

To reinstall (repair) Windows 11, download its latest ISO file on the dedicated Microsoft site : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11. Then once downloaded, double click on the ISO file to launch the Windows “setup” process. The tool will propose to install Windows 11 keeping the personal files and apps, which I chose. Windows settings also remained unchanged, so except for the time spent, the process was quite transparent.

I guess I have offered everything I could except to say that at least you, my fellow victims, should be some how happy to know at least two people, who suffered exactly the same as you have experienced (after a few trials in my case), have since recovered from the same problems you have experienced. As I said, I can not explain what has happened and why did it worked for us - only Microsoft people can (but I saw no sign that they want to involve in this hot potato). What can I say? Try more times and you may be lucky next time? I am an optimist, and I remain to be hopeful that one of you will report back to this forum that you have come through the Dark Tunnel (built by Microsoft).

JP

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.

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