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I used to cycle between three keyboard settings:

  • QWERTY
  • French AZERTY
  • Belgian AZERTY

I removed French AZERTY from the list, but since then, whenever I boot Windows I get contradicting information.

The keyboard layout popup screen (Win + Space) and the language bar (in the taskbar) both me I have the two AZERTYs available, but the language settings window tells me that I have the Belgian AZERTY and QWERTY (which is what I want):

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The only way I can solve this is to remove the QWERTY entry, and then add it again. This adds the QWERTY option but it still doesn't remove the French AZERTY option:

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This seems to fix the popup screen and the language bar (well, partially), but when I reboot I have to do it all over again.

How do I get Windows 10 to actually give me the keyboard layouts that I've configured, instead of some presumably cached version?

To pre-empt a possible comment, I only have one language (and thus keyboard layout list), this isn't a confusion with using the wrong group:

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    Perhaps [this answer](https://superuser.com/a/1340511/8672) can help. – harrymc Nov 19 '19 at 14:43
  • @harrymc: It didn't fully resolve the issue, but it did lead me to an acceptable enough solution. Note that I needed to change the CURRENT_USER registry settings too, not the just .DEFAULT. Also, now my language changes when I move to Belgian AZERTY (which I don't want). But if you post an answer I will accept it. – Flater Nov 19 '19 at 15:46
  • I can't copy that answer here - the moderators would prefer that I close this post as duplicate of the other. – harrymc Nov 19 '19 at 17:00
  • @harrymc: The _question_ isn't a duplicate from the one you linked. The answer simply touches on a similar enough issue. I'm no SU.SE expert but going by SE standards this isn't a duplicate. – Flater Nov 19 '19 at 22:55
  • If you insist. Which part of my linked answer helped in your case? I suppose the `Preload` registry key? – harrymc Nov 20 '19 at 06:15

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The link posted in a comment on the question led me to an acceptable (though not ideal) solution.

Method 2 : Preloaded

  1. Use regedit to navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload. You will find there the list of keyboards that are preloaded at boot.
  2. Find the keyboard identifier among the list of Keyboard Identifiers
  3. Delete the key.

I had to perform this action for both HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT and HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

After that, the two expected keyboard layouts (QWERTY/Belgian AZERTY) were being shown on startup.

There are a few side effects though:

  • The Belgian AZERTY language is set to NL instead of EN, which is not what I want.
  • I have not found a way to make the Belgian AZERTY the default instead of QWERTY.

But this at least solves the core issue at hand. If anyone finds a solution that doesn't have these side effects, I'll happily give them the answer tick.

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