My daughter is learning Spanish and enabled Spanish language support on our Windows system. She now has her own computer, and I don’t need that support any more. How can I turn it off to get rid of the “ENG” on my TaskBar?
You really made me work for this one because it took a while to figure out what you meant by “ENG” showing up on your TaskBar on your Windows 10 system. But it turns out that if you enable multiple language support, Win10 will neatly show you the current keyboard configuration on the TaskBar with a small abbreviation. This might be helpful or not, but if you are switching between languages, it’s darn useful to know which keyboard you should be anticipating.
Seeing it and controlling it are two very different things, however, so I set up a test Dell Win10 system to support both English and Spanish so I could duplicate your situation. Not too hard when you use the search system to figure out where language support can be found. Here’s how I then turned support for Spanish back off…
To start, though, here’s that ENG showing up on the TaskBar:
Subtle, but noticeable. And it’d bug me if I had to look at it every day, actually.
To fix it, go to Settings off the Windows 10 menu or, if you don’t have that, look for “Time & Language”:
Click or tap on “Time & language”, as shown above.
You’ll get to your Languages setting and it should show more than one language enabled. Like this:
You can see that our test computer has English (United States) as the default display language for Windows, along with support for Español (Estados Unidos) aka Spanish (United States).
Click on the language you don’t want to have included and you’ll see some buttons magically appear:
Helpful to know how to switch it to being the default language for your computer if you’d prefer all your menus and interaction to be in Spanish (or German, or Chinese, or Korean or… whatever), but for our situation, it’s the “Remove” button that’s of interest.
Click on “Remove”.
Done.
And that pesky TaskBar? No language need be indicated, so “ENG” has vanished:
Not too hard once you know where to look. Good luck!
As someone who speaks fluently two languages and constantly uses both of them on his computer, I’m forced to have this “ENG” on the taskbar for every single day of my life haha.