Disable the Language bar.
This setting can disable the Language bar which is active on taskbar, by default.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
The language bar is a toolbar that appears on your desktop automatically. It provides a quick way to change the input language or keyboard layout from your desktop. You can move the language bar anywhere on your screen, minimize it to the taskbar, or hide it. But, most of the users never use language bar which unnecessarily covers the taskbar space on their system. So, to get rid of it change the below registry settings. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the dword value showstatus, in the right panel, to 3 which can disable language bar. However, if you want to enable the feature back, change the value data to 4. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
The language bar is a toolbar that appears on your desktop automatically. It provides a quick way to change the input language or keyboard layout from your desktop. You can move the language bar anywhere on your screen, minimize it to the taskbar, or hide it. But, most of the users never use language bar which unnecessarily covers the taskbar space on their system. So, to get rid of it change the below registry settings. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the dword value showstatus, in the right panel, to 3 which can disable language bar. However, if you want to enable the feature back, change the value data to 4. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
Screenshots

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type 'regedit'.

Next, go to <b> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar\] </b> and right click on the DWORD value 'ShowStatus' and select 'Modify'.

Finally, set the value data as '3' to remove Language bar option from the taskbar and click 'OK'.
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar\]
- Location: Current User
- Value Name: ShowStatus
- Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Enabled Value: 3
- Disabled Value: 4
- Action Type: Modified
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