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Remove language from Windows 10 using PowerShell

I want to use Powershell to add or remove a language and change the keyboard layout from left to right or from right to left in Windows 10. I wrote code to add a language but I cannot find a guide to remove it again or to change the layout. I also want to ask the user if he wants to add or to remove a language.

This is my code:

$List = Get-WinUserLanguageList
$List.Add("lt-LT")
Set-WinUserLanguageList $List

Thank you in advance.

Solution

  • I managed to do this by using the index of the English language in the $List array in combination with the Set-WinUserLanguageList cmdlet. I found it odd that I couldn't simply reverse the steps by using the $list.remove("lt-LT") method, as it returns False, so I set about recreating the list another way.

    After you've added "lt-LT" to the list, I ran the first cmdlet again to see what we were working with:

    $list = Get-WinUserLanguageList

    Which returned an array with two objects. $list[0] Returned

    LanguageTag     : en-US
Autonym         : English (United States)
EnglishName     : English
LocalizedName   : English (United States)
ScriptName      : Latin script
InputMethodTips : {0409:00000409}
Spellchecking   : True
Handwriting     : False

    and $list[1] returned

    LanguageTag     : lt
Autonym         : lietuvių
EnglishName     : Lithuanian
LocalizedName   : Lithuanian
ScriptName      : Latin script
InputMethodTips : {0427:00010427}
Spellchecking   : True
Handwriting     : False

    So what we needed to do was ensure that Set-WinUserLanguageList only got one of the inputs. I ran the following and it set the Language list appropriately.

    Set-WinUserLanguageList $($list[0])

    And now only the appropriate list is returned when running Get-WinUserLanguageList