Cannot remove "Traditional Chinese" Keyboard Input

Hi! Yesterday I opened my brand new Asus f8sp (I'm new to windows, been on the mac kool-aid for awhile), and by default the two language input settings were US English and Simplified Chinese. I'm an American studying Chinese, so it seemed almost perfect, as these are the two keyboard layouts I use. However, when I rebooted it this morning, "Traditional Chinese - Taiwan" showed up. I opened up "Text Services and Input Languages" and removed the traditional keyboard layout, but on the toolbar it still shows all three languages. This is a bit inconvenient, as I like to frequently alt-shift between languages, and the presence of an input method I don't use adds another keystroke. Sorry if this seems pointless, but I'm a bit obsessive about these types of things!
I'm on Vista, fully updated.

Thanks for your time!

Sorry if this counts as reposting, but the more I think about this it seems to be something Asus-related.

 

Never mind, I just screwed around some settings for half an hour and it worked! Sorry to clog up the forums.

 

Ugh, rebooted again and it's back! I'd rather not have to mess around every time I log in to fix this, anybody got any ideas, I'd really appreciate it!

 

I'm guessing "bumps" aren't allowed, but I want to give this one last shot. Sorry!

 

Can we assume you've got English as the default input language in the Text Services and Input Languages settings? As well as top of the list of installed services?

 

Yep, I made sure of those things first and I just doublechecked.

 

I hate to bump a one year old thread, but this is the closet thing on this forum I have found related to my problem.

I have a brand new Asus G51VX-X1A with this same issue. The "Text Services and Input Languages" (which controls the language toolbar) does not show "Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)" option, but it is on my taskbar.

Anyone else have this problem? Or preferably a fix?

Or does this belong to Asus direct or another forum?

~snake

 

Check your keyboards and other input language option in your Region and Language setting in your control panel.

 

No luck. There is just English.

I have tried adding the Chinese and then removing it. When I hit apply, it works, but when I close the window, Chinese gets readded.

My next step is a reinstall.

Unless anyone has other thoughts?

Thanks,
snake

 

can we first confirm that this is the english version of windows?
i.e. it reads "start" on the bottom left button (or where ever you shifted it to) instead of "开始"

also after "changing" your settings, try dragging the language bar out of the taskbar, restart, then drag it back in

 

Lol, yes it is English. It is the original version/install that came with my comp when I first got it.

Tried all sorts of different drags and the likes to no avail.

Already am installing a fresh copy of windows. Hope anyone else with this has a better fix.

 

Ancient Chinese secret.