How To Get Rid Of Alternate Keyboards In Vista

I find that everyone I know who uses Vista complains at some point of the OS randomly deciding to switch input languages. Since I am in Canada, this is most commonly French to English or English to French. There are a few simple steps you can do to stop this problem. I actually change this setting on every computer I set up at my computer technician job.

Follow the steps:

Start > Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region (or) Regional and Language Settings

Then depending on your Control Panel view,

Change Keyboards or Other Input Methods (or) Keyboards and Languages tab > Change Keyboards...

Select each language/keyboard you don't intend on using from the list, and select remove. To use the standard English keyboard, use US.

Move to the Language Bar tab, then select Hidden. Then move to the Advanced Key Settings tab, and if any of the entries have a key sequence beside their name, press Change Key Sequence... then change both settings to Not Assigned.

Hit OK a bunch of times and you're set. No more worrying about random switches between French and English and whatever other language you have installed. Unless of course you want it that way.