Loading Microsoft Japanese keyboard into Windows 11

[m...@lphs.school.nz]

Hello,

(Forgive me if I'm wrong about Windows technical things)

My Japanese teacher is unable to download / install the Japanese IME keyboard into her Windows 11 Tela laptop, and Gemini leads me to believe this is related to needing a Microsoft Account to use Windows 11 properly. (Her laptop was set up without an MS account)

If true, this raises a bigger picture, as all staff and (potentially) all students will need Microsoft accounts (when we upgrade to Windows 11). But we are told by the Ministry to use either Google or Microsoft (we're a Google school). So if we use Google, as we do, we'd still need to generate Microsoft accounts for all users?

(It may be that this language pack issue is unrelated to the MS account issue, if so, many apologies)

Thanks for any assistance,

Mark.

[Dael Sutton]

Hi There.

If you run this command under a user's context;

powershell -command "$LL = get-winuserlanguagelist; $LL.add('mi-NZ');  $LL.add('fr-FR'); $LL.add('es-ES'); $LL.add('de-DE'); $LL.add('zh-CN'); $LL.add('ja-JP');  set-winuserlanguagelist $LL -force"

This will add Maori, French, Spanish, German, Chinese & Japanese keyboards to the current user list of selectable keyboards.

Prune out those you don't need and run the command. No special login required.

D.