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
    2023-03-08T21:17:08+00:00

    Hey， for those who suffered the same problems as I did - not able to re-install Simplified Chinese (or actually any other language as I have tested). Thanks to Yuan X, it worked eventually (after many tries). It works. 成功了!

    Again, thanks a million to Yuan X for passing on his successful solution 多谢了. (No thanks to Microsoft for abandoning paying customers to the bugs they created to begin with).

    Again, here is Yuan X's tips:

    Updates: I tried the following and got it to work FINALLY. Not sure which one(s) are really needed.

    1. removed Chinese language pack
    2. Run "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth" in command line
    3. Update windows 11 to the latest.
    4. Download the language pack and basic typing again. SUCCESS!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-18T21:26:21+00:00

    Thank you very much! I've just tested these for Japanese and they worked (ありがとうございます！):

    1. I had Japanese Supplemental Fonts installed. I removed them, restarted, then tried adding Japanese basic typing - it failed as before.
    2. I removed the fonts again, restarted again. I then added the fonts - successfully. I tried adding Japanese basic typing again, and this time it installed successfully!

    So, if you do have the Japanese (or, I guess - Chinese) supplemental fonts, the procedure should be:

    1. Remove them and restart the computer.
    2. Add them back (wait for the install to finish).
    3. Add Japanese (or Chinese) basic typing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-06T03:11:11+00:00

    I encounter the same issue here. Been downloading the Chinese input and stuck at the basic typing for many days. Windows 11 just sucks man tbh.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-07T00:18:43+00:00

    I am experiencing exactly the same problems as reported about not finishing downloading Simplified Chinese's "Baseic Typing". It has been stuck at about 70% downloading and won't advance any. I couldn't do anymore work with WIndows11. Is there a way that we reset/reinstall Window's Language package? (if not, my machine will be crippled forever???)

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