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
    2023-04-21T13:48:07+00:00

    same problem

    error 0x80070422

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-12T19:58:39+00:00

    Hi all,

    It's really a life-saving for me to see many people have the same issue. I think I won't use system tying anymore, I'll just go for a Chinese keyboard app just to see how it goes.

    Will update the result.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-03T00:56:07+00:00

    If you have decided to Re-install your Windows 11, you should be able to do so without downloading the ISO from Microsoft. Just Go to System, then "Recovery" - then "Recovery this PC" - it will give you the option to keep your personal files (or to whip them clean). You will have to reinstall and configure all the apps (including Chrome)...

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-23T21:08:37+00:00

    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.

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