How to disable automatic keyboard layout change in Windows 8?

Question

I have a laptop with a Hungarian keyboard, but I usually use a Finnish external keyboard. My problem is that very often windows tries to be smart, and it changes that layout of the keyboard on it's own, when I'm switching between apps, and very often it can be annoying that whenever I start typing I have to switch back the layout to Hungarian or Finnish, depending on if I'm using the build-in keyboard or the external ( I have to do the alt-tab combination).

So, is there any way that I disable that windows changes the keyboard layout on it's own?

Solution 1

Try that:

1. Open control panel(Click Desktop Icon, take your cursor into the left bottom corner, right click, you will also find the control panel option or open Run box + R type control and Ok).
2. Switch to all items view.
3. Click Language.
4. In the left hand side panel choose advanced settings.
5. Uncheck the box under Switching input method that says Let me set a different input method for each app Windows.

Solution 2

I had the same problem. The first part of @stderr answer is ok. But I had to do the following:

1. Open control panel(Click Desktop Icon, take your cursor into the left bottom corner, right click, you will also find the control panel option or open Run box + R type control and Ok).
2. Switch to all items view.
3. Click Language.
4. In the left hand side panel choose advanced settings.

Now this is the part that worked for me.

1. Click on options
2. Click on advanced key settings

Here you can choose which keyboard shortcuts you use to switch between input languages. If you don't want to use it, select none. But now you know how to switch between inputs (if you look at which keys, default is left alt+shift)

Easy way to see which input language is chosen, turn on you language bar.

Now whenever you see the wrong characters you can see in the language bar which input language is currently in use.

Comments

[Tamas]

That refers on the input method (i.e. handwriting), but not the input LANGUAGE.

[SherylHohman]

Clicking on "Advanced Key Settings" tab in the last screenshot, allows you to change the keyboard shortcuts used to switch languages and keyboards. Set to (none) removes the keyboard shortcut from automatically switching keyboards/languages. You can still use Win + Space to quickly switch both. Either way if you use Adobe Products (Photoshop, etc) or Code Editors (Sublime, etc) you'll probably at least want to change the default key combos, if you don't want to remove them altogether. See also superuser.com/a/991729/659759