Delete Additional Keyboard on Windows10

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 15:23:50 +0300

Why the need?

Why the Keyboard Layout

Anyone with a non-english country probably has one or more languages and probably their respective keyboard layouts available to them.
In Turkey, we have a Turkish-Q keyboard layout and our keyboards are mostly in this layout as hardware.
Here is a quick glance of how it is, thanks to Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kbdtuq.html

What has changed in Windows10

You used to delete this additional keyboard layout so that it just doesn’t switch from one to the other during your usage.
It seems there’s a bug in Windows so you can’t do what you’ve been able to do previously.
Details of the bug is here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/unable-to-remove-a-language-from-windows-10-april/47c13ea5-79ed-4a29-96d4-47d1264b6838

Desktop Pc Setup

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:10:32 +0300

Tools to install:

Avira Antivir
AutoHotKey
7Zip
1Password
Ditto
Google Drive
Dropbox
VSCode
Spotify
Winamp
Discord
Git
Firefox
Chrome
Greenshot (Screenshot tool)
Notion
GameManagers (Steam, Origin, AmazonGames, Epic, UPlay)
GameSaveManager (To restore local saved games)
Some media player (Potplayer, VLC, should decide)
Torrent tool (qBittorrent, should decide)
Slack
WinDirStat
Restic Backup
VPN (Surfshark, NordVPN)

Drivers, runtimes to install:

NVidia GeForce
Java runtime
Razr keyboard, mouse drivers
Steelseries arctis 7 driver

Steps before re-installing Windows

Manually trigger last restic backup
Sync Drives (Firefox account, Google Drive, Dropbox)
Manually copy media folders to a backup location
1. /Users/<user>Documents
2. /Users/<user>Pictures
3. /Users/<user>Desktop
4. /Users/<user>Downloads
Manually take screenshots of Dota Settings screens
Backup saved games through GameSave-Manager
Backup Steam games to a Library folder on another disk if it’s in C:
Push git folders
Prepare Windows installation USB using Installation Media Creation Tool

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