Why Does My Language Bar Keep Reappearing?
Microsoft Windows includes a language bar that displays on the computer desktop when you install a language pack or another text service. If you don’t want the language bar to keep popping up on your desktop, tweak the computer’s settings to remove the feature.
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About Windows Text Services
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Windows comes with many standard text services, such as the language packs that allow users to switch between input languages and change the layout of the computer keyboard to access font characters for different languages. Input method editors, speech recognition and handwriting recognition services also fall under the text services umbrella. Adding any of these text services to your Windows computer activates the language bar.
Language Bar Display
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After enabling a text service or installing a language pack, a shortcut to the language bar appears in the right notification area of the Windows desktop task bar. The full language bar also displays on your computer desktop. When the language bar appears, you can move it to another position on the desktop by selecting and dragging the bar to your preferred location or minimize the bar by clicking the “-“ minimize button on the right side of the bar.
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Disable Language Bar
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If moving or minimizing the bar isn’t enough, you can disable the language bar so that it no longer appears on your computer desktop. Right-click anywhere on the language bar. From the Options menu, click “Close the Language Bar” to switch off the feature and remove it from your desktop permanently. Disabling the language bar doesn’t switch off or remove the associated text service. If you want to access the language bar again, right-click the desktop taskbar and select “Toolbars” followed by “Language Bar” in the context menus.
Considerations
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The options on the language bar vary, depending on the type of text or language service that you’ve enabled or installed. Displaying the language bar makes switching between services easy; for example, if you’ve installed an additional French keyboard layout to add accent characters to certain letters in French words, you can easily switch back to the English keyboard by clicking the option in the language bar. Removing the language bar makes this process more time-consuming, because you’ll need to access the language bar from the main desktop taskbar to switch services.
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