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Keyboard customization under Windows has never been easy.

Fortunately, KbdEdit is here to turn it around: now it’s never been easier! Twist your keyboard into a pretzel sooner than you can say «heterosyllabic».

NEW! Editable NLS functions, enabling multiple VK codes per single key.

NEW! Main window layout is now resizable.

NEW! Kbdedit now supports up to 15 modifier positions.

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The Most Powerful Keyboard Editor Ever

Lean and blazingly fast

KbdEdit is written entirely in C++ language, whence its excellent performance and responsiveness. Code-bloat free: two self-sufficient exe files is all that is ever installed on your computer (only one file in the Demo version)

KbdEdit writes Windows DLL layout files directly and quickly, with no intermediary steps like code generation, compilation and linking.

Special and function keys reprogramming

KbdEdit is no ordinary keyboard mapper: not only can you assign any letter or special character to any key, but with the Personal edition you can remap physical position and function of any, and we mean ANY key: letter or digit, Control, Alt, Shift, Function, multimedia or cursor keys.

You can even reprogram such unyielding keys as Caps/Num/Scroll Lock and Numpad keys.

Missing the right Ctrl, which was expelled from your laptop’s keyboard in favor of the «context menu» key you never use? With KbdEdit, nothing easier than bringing it back.

Unprecedented ease of use

Just start the program and play with it, within 10 minutes you too will become a keyboard layout expert.

With KbdEdit, all keyboard functions are at your fingertips, waiting for you to reprogram them to your taste — only one menu item, button click or drag&drop away.

Undo/Redo

You can experiment to your heart’s content — multiple level Undo/Redo always gives you an easy route back.

Instant preview

Any change you make can be instantly tested in the Preview screen.

Don’t waste time designing elaborate layouts only to discover they’re ergonomic disasters once you try to use them. Test any change as soon as you make it.

Print your own keyboard stickers

With KbdEdit’s key cap stickers, you can make any physical keyboard match your custom layout key-for-key.

Comfortable Unicode navigation

Unicode palette at the bottom of the KbdEdit screen will soon become your best friend. It adjusts automatically to the current layout, displaying only character ranges that make sense for your language, and highlights characters that appear in the current layout..

Even better, you can drag&drop characters even from/to other applications — KbdEdit is a better CharMap than the Windows built-in CharMap itself

Unicode with its 65 536 code points will never intimidate you again.

Ligatures, Dead keys, Multilingual keyboards and much more

With the Personal edition, you can use advanced layout features like Ligatures and customized dead keys.

With the help of togglable KANA modifier, you can even support two or three different languages on a single layout!

Don’t lose your investment in MSKLC

KbdEdit seamlessly imports KLC files produced by Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. Not only does this make for a painless migration, it also enables the deployment of KLC files under 64-bit Windows, which cannot be achieved using MSKLC alone.

Easy deployment

With KbdEdit, your customized layout can become a part of your favorite layout list in no time, and from that point on it is accessible from any Windows application.

No harm is made to your system

The changes you make are localized strictly to the custom layouts created with KbdEdit. Windows standard layouts, as well as layouts created with other tools, are protected from any accidental damage.

Share your layouts

To deploy a custom layout elsewhere, you will only need to «Export» it and use the «Import» feature on the target computer.

The target does not even have to run a Full version of KbdEdit — the Player edition, with its generous volume discount, offers a cost-effective way to deploy custom layouts on a large number of computers.

Alternatively, with KbdEdit Premium you can generate stand-alone layout installer packages which allow you to distribute to wide audience at no cost to the end user.

how to remove keyboard layout on Windows 10?

Original Title: how to permanent remove keyboard layout?

I am French, living in Germany, but prefer to use Windows in English US. Tired of different keyboard layouts, I also have now only keyboard with US layout. So I removed French and German keyboard layouts, but Windows somehow kept them and KEEP switching back to a German layout anytime I come back from the lock screen.

I disabled the quick layout shortcut, I don’t want any, just the US layout.

So just US layout for my physical keyboard on my desktop (USB) and tablet (Bluetooth), both having a full up to date Windows 10 10586.218 (x64 on desktop, 32bits on tablet).

On the same live account, I am also using a Windows 10 Mobile device (Nokia 730) on which I only use touch keyboard and thus need all 3 layouts (French, English, German). I hope my account settings are not mixing up with the windows settings!!

Here a screenshot on my tablet: for each of the 3 languages, only the US keyboard layout is configured, but on the langage list, I also get the French and German keyboards.

How can I get rid of them for good?? This is particularly annoying since the German keyboard is set back as default at any windows lock screen!!

We regret the inconvenience caused.

The above issue might occur due to the following reasons:

1. Country & Region settings not enabling you to delete the keyboard language set on the PC.
2. Not choosing appropriate default keyboard layout.

Before we assist you further, I would like to ask you a few questions:

1. Did you try removing the keyboard layouts from Settings page?
2. If yes, does the issue persists even after removing the keyboard layout?

By removing the Keyboard layout from system Settings page, the language will be removed from the PC. However, if needed, you can download the same from system Settings page and check if the changes made are effective.

You can remove the keyboard layout either from system Settings page or Control panel. Follow either of the steps below to remove the keyboard layout and check if the issue is resolved.

Step 1 : System Settings window.

1. Press Windows logo + I keys on the keyboard to open Settings page.
2. Click on Time & language from the options and select Region & language from the left side panel of the window.
3. Click on the keyboard language you want to remove under Languages and click on Remove.
4. Close the window and check if the changes are effective.

Step 2 : Control panel.

1. Press Windows logo + X keys on the keyboard and click on Control panel from the context menu.
2. Click on View by option located at the top right corner of the window and select Large icons from the dropdown bar.
3. From the panel, click on Language.
4. Under Change your language preferences click on the keyboard layout to remove and click on the Remove button which will now be available to use.
5. Close the window and check if the changes are effective.

Write to us with the status of the issue on the keyboard layout language removed from the PC for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.

Can’t remove a Keyboard layout in Windows 10

I changed my computer region to USA for a reason and returned it back to Egypt.

But, There I keyboard layout was added which is English (United Kingdom) and rewritten in its description (United States — International Keyboard). How can I remove this? It doesn’t in the settings.

Welcome and thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Let us try the following steps, and check if it helps.

Press the Windows key on the keyboard.

Click on Settings, then click on Time & language option.

Click Region & language on the top left of the screen.

Click on Windows Display language to expand, and click on Options.

Select the Keyboard layout, and click on Remove.

Let us know if you have any further query on Windows, we are glad to assist you further.

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Finally found out what causes this problem and a solution for it!

Why this stuff happens: for some reason Win 10 adds «parasitic» registry key for default keyboard layout after some major updates. For my version it is US English layout. But I use only Russian and British (UK) layouts.

How to fix: simply delete key for that «parasitic» layout.

1) Open registry Editor (Win+R -> regedit) as Administrator.

2) Navigate to Computer\HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload

3) Here you can see some files like this:

That is your layouts. Then, find keyboard codes using search engine you want.

In my case I have three layouts: 809 is for UK, 409 is for US, 419 is for Russian.

4) You know what to do. Simply delete unneeded key.

5) Reboot you device. Voila!

. UPDATE PLS READ.

If you want this fix to be permanent:

1) Right-click on «Preload» branch and choose «Permissions».

2) Click on «Advanced».

3) Click on «Disable Inheritance» and confirm disabling. Then click «Apply» button.

4) Head back to «Permissions for Preload» and left-click on System.

5) In «Permissions for System» part of the window UNCHECK «Full Control» box and hit «Apply».

WARNING! DO NOT ACCIDENTALLY UNCHECK THIS BOX ON YOUR ADMINISTER USER

Be advised: after doing this stuff you WILL NOT be able to add/delete layouts. If you for some reason want to change your layout setting allow Full Control again, make your changes and then uncheck this box again.

. ONE MORE UPDATE PLS READ.

Seems like disabling Full Control for Preload folder doesn’t work anymore.

Now you have to disable it for the whole Keyboard Layout branch. System looks stable for 2 days. No parasitic layouts spotted.

Создание собственной раскладки клавиатуры в Windows

Подключив клавиатуру Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad к компьютеру с ОС Windows 8.1 я столкнулся с стандартной проблемой раскладки. Раскладка клавиатур Apple отличается от Windows, к который мы все привыкли, а так как при печати я смотрю на клавиатуру, постоянно путался со знаками препинания и буквой “Ё”, которую постоянно использую. Поэтому стал смотреть в сторону создания кастомной, в моём случае Apple, раскладки.

Для создания кастомной раскладки, Microsoft предлагает программу Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MKLC). Требует Framework 2.0.50727.

Для примера создадим русскую раскладку клавиатуры Apple.

1. Откроем программу

2. Выберем тип расположения клавиш на клавиатуре в меню View –> Options

3. Чтобы не настраивать каждую клавишу, загрузим существующую в системе русскую раскладку в меню File –> Load Existing Keyboard…

4. Присвоим имя и описание раскладке в меню Project –> Properties. Выполняя одиночный клик на клавишах делаем необходимые изменения. В итоге получится:

И тоже самое, только с “нажатым” Shift

5. Напоследок проверим как работает новая раскладка. Для этого вызовем тест раскладки в меню Project –> Test Keyboard Layout…

6. Если ошибок нет, соберём пакет новой раскладки в меню Project –> Build DLL and Setup Package.

На выходе получим файлы для установки.

7. Для установки с правами администратора запускаем setup.exe , установка пройдёт автоматически, система сообщит об успешной установке

8. В языковых параметрах системы остаётся только настроить раскладки клавиатуры

9. Для того, чтобы новая раскладка работала на экране приветствия и для новых пользователей, необходимо скопировать текущие настройки пользователя в профиль системы и в профиль пользователя по умолчанию.