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That extra layout in Win+Space was us

2026-08-20

If Win+Space offers you a language you never added — that was us.

Two people reported it a week apart: languages they never added kept slipping into their text, and Windows Settings had nothing to remove. Both halves were our doing.

What happened. Older versions loaded a keyboard layout into Windows in order to switch to it. So a person with English and Russian ended up with Hebrew in their language list. 0.7.1 stopped doing that, but the layout it had already added stayed — and the app kept correcting text into a language the keyboard could no longer type.

What 0.7.2 changes. Two things, and the second one ends the problem.

The "Remove layout" button removes them for real. That word matters: the button existed before, reported success and changed nothing, because a layout can hide in three places and it only knew one of them.

And the app now stops using such a leftover whether or not you remove it. A language counts only when Windows keeps it across sign-outs; a layout loaded into the running session and written nowhere is ignored. So even if you still see it in Win+Space, it no longer reaches your text.

Clearing what is left. The page walks through all three cases with the two read-only commands that tell them apart:

https://neuroswitcher.app/layouts.html

None of it requires signing out or restarting Windows.