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How to disable the Language Bar in Windows XP

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The Language bar in Windows XP is useful but it sometimes it can be very annoying. No matter how many times you close it, it keeps popping up everytime you restart Windows and stays put even when you are not using Microsoft Office.

Here is how you can disable the Language Bar in Windows XP. :)

How To Disable The Language Bar in Windows XP ?

To close the Language bar (using Classic view in Control Panel) :

  1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Regional and Language Options.
  2. On the Languages tab, under Text services and input languages, click Details.
  3. Under Preferences, click Language Bar.
  4. Deselect the Show the Language bar on the desktop check box.

That is it. You will never again see the Language Bar annoying you again. ;)

Written by Manas

June 1st, 2007 at 11:44 pm

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  1. Paul Cahill

    13 Nov 07 at 6:39 am

    thank god I found this. I think this has been one of the biggest annoyances since I got windwos XP but I was too lazy to figure out how to disable it.

  2. Manas

    13 Nov 07 at 2:24 pm

    Glad that this helped you Paul !

  3. Dustin Fette

    23 Nov 07 at 12:08 am

    I learn something new about computers everyday. Thank You for letting me know how to do this. Have a happy thanksgiving.

  4. Pasto

    31 Jan 08 at 4:42 am

    Thanks a million, man. This FINALLY fixed my problem. I’ve had issues with all sorts of random MS apps since I got this PC. Every so often, and for interminable amounts of time, an MS app would just start typing gibberish accent characters instead of punctuation. I checked the language bar and disabled it, set the keyboard layout to US, but nothing fixed it. “Why is the application thinking the layout isn’t in english when it’s selected right there?” Finally followed your steps here, found the hotkey menu buried 5 steps back – the one that for some insane reason HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH the keyboard layout selection menu -, and disabled ctrl-shift as a hotkey for Chinese. As a reluctant admission, it’s rather difficult to program C# when you can’t hit {} = ; | & * [].

    …Geez.

  5. Fayyaz Aziz

    13 Mar 08 at 10:20 am

    Yes I got it. Thanks a lot.

  6. Michael Foss

    14 Mar 08 at 8:23 pm

    OK, here’s one for you – Language Bar stays disappeared by default, and going into settings as you mentioned turns it off for good. However, when I RDP into another PC using Terminal Services and come back from it, not only is the Language Bar in the Taskbar, but the settings are switched on it again, turning it on by default! Has anybody else had this issue?

  7. ...

    23 May 08 at 6:24 am

    this isnt disabling it, this is just hiding it..

  8. Me

    4 Jun 08 at 6:45 pm

    Thanks – that always annoyed me!

  9. bopopa

    15 Jun 08 at 4:27 pm

    Hey guys i have reserve problem ,

    after reinstalling XP , language bar under preferences is disabled, i cant click it and i need to show language bar please reply me ! is it because some of virus something ?

  10. hyvert2fo1

    28 Jun 08 at 2:19 am

    Many thanks for that helpful tip! It was driving me nuts!!

  11. Chetan

    9 Jul 08 at 12:18 am

    Glad to see that thier is an option to shut the language bar dwn…pc use to take lot of time to boot now its fine thanks…Great help!….

  12. henry

    12 Jul 08 at 5:41 am

    how do you get the language bar back again?

  13. ruf

    22 Jul 08 at 7:48 am

    thanks, glad i finally got rid of that.

  14. peter

    27 Aug 08 at 10:12 pm

    this is great- thanks
    and @ henry- it should come back by rechecking that box.

  15. Billy

    18 Sep 08 at 2:33 am

    Perfect thanks!

  16. Ringo

    18 Sep 08 at 10:05 pm

    Nice one, whenever I’ve been opening the run command using windows key + r, the language bar has been launching and stealing focus, meaning I then have to go to the mouse and click the run command before I can start typing into it!

  17. cw1972

    7 Oct 08 at 6:45 pm

    http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Remove-Language-Bar-t2783.html

    you can ‘hide’ it using the regional settings in control and unhide by reversing the setting

    though the page linked above says you can remove it forever with the command:

    Regsvr32.exe /u msutb.dll

    but it also say that this method is irreversable

  18. Mer

    21 Oct 08 at 5:18 am

    OMG. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

    You have NO IDEA how much this stupid crap annoyed me!

    This should be the FIRST LINK rather than that “geekstogo” link.

    Thanks again :D :D

  19. Rahul

    13 Dec 08 at 3:17 pm

    Good info.. this things was annoying so much.. thanks

  20. Allen

    22 Jan 09 at 4:23 am

    Been a great help dude!!!!!

  21. shawn

    31 Jan 09 at 2:19 am

    use the DLL registration service to disable it completely, when you de-register the DLL it can’t run because Windows doesn’t recognize anything without it’s DLL…

    regsvr32 /u msutb.dll ::this de-registers
    regsvr32 msutb.dll ::this re-registers

    someone posted that before but said it was irreversible, it’s not, just omit the “/u” to re-register if you need to

  22. Drazen

    26 Feb 09 at 2:48 pm

    Thanks a lot! I finally won’t see those annoying icons on the Taskbar again!

  23. Pop

    14 Apr 09 at 2:32 am

    Nice!

  24. Puneet Bhatia

    27 Apr 09 at 2:38 am

    thanks alot this relly helped me….

  25. GreenAsJade

    14 Aug 09 at 1:18 pm

    Me too! Thanks for this article!

  26. Douglas

    25 Aug 09 at 5:58 am

    Problem is that it comes back when I reboot the system. How do you permanently disable it?

  27. ankush

    28 Oct 09 at 7:58 am

    thnx . . it helped ! ! !

  28. XP user

    13 Nov 09 at 11:13 pm

    Thank god for your post. This has been annoying me everytime I open any browser, not to mention any OFFICE tool.

  29. Chris XP

    15 Nov 09 at 6:37 am

    thanks for the helpful tip! regards.

  30. bernie

    1 Dec 09 at 11:46 am

    It doesn’t work. When my pointer is at a word on the screen, the spanish translation appears floating on the page. How can I disable it forever???

  31. Rod

    24 Jan 10 at 1:34 am

    Thank you thank you thank you!!!

  32. kiran

    23 Apr 10 at 7:52 pm

    Thank God,
    Good commitment any way thank u for the information.

  33. Kenny

    26 Apr 10 at 2:11 am

    Considering that I found this page by googling “Turn off language bar for good,” you can tell I’m pretty annoyed by this damned thing. And I just want to condemn the idiot at Microsoft, who made this design choice, or bug, or whatever. If I right click the taskbar and uncheck the thing, that means I DON’T WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN, until I choose to. This is my computer isn’t it? Goddam that idiot, he must be retarded. Microsoft needs to start drug testing its employees. Goddammit

  34. Savi

    26 Apr 10 at 9:55 am

    Thanks Dear.. it helps me a lot.

    Have a gr8 day..:)

  35. Milan

    8 Jul 10 at 11:02 am

    Nice… worked like a charm.

  36. Brett

    23 Jul 10 at 11:19 pm

    THANK GOD! I never have to deal with the language bar again! I love you!

  37. Brett

    23 Jul 10 at 11:20 pm

    By the way. Kenny, you are hilarious. It’s so true!

  38. ArKa /x/

    19 Aug 10 at 5:22 pm

    Hey thanks a lot!

    many of my customers have been annoyed by the language barr because they would accidentally open it and not something else. Thank you for the help! not on single IT tech knows it all!

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