Show the language bar on the desktop. The Language Bar is gone. What to do

It doesn't take a genius to understand that our life consists of communication. And the virtual world is even more so - continuous, global communication. This is understandable, this is normal, and it seems like there is nothing to add. You write to each other, share news, experiences, or just work in text editor... A short period of time passes, and you need to change the input language, your gaze rushes to the usual bottom corner, but the panel you need is not there! Very often, Windows 7 owners complain that the "language bar" has disappeared. And immediately thoughts arise, has the language really disappeared? Windows panel 7 how to restore it and put it back in place? Everything happens in our life for the first time. Do not despair, read on and you will understand how to enable the language bar in Windows 7, in fact, it is not that difficult.

In a nutshell, I will tell you what kind of panel it is. So, the language bar, so you understand, is a set of certain tools on the desktop. It then shows you the current keyboard layout. Displays manual input, speech recognition, and other useful features of your PC. But you can just use hotkeys, advanced users will say. They will say, they will say, but, just like beginners, they will fix their eyes on this panel to switch the language layout. Funny? Yes, but it's a fact. So, let's start saving your panel.

How to enable language bar in Windows 7?

There are several ways to put the above panel back in place:

Thanks to the functions of the control panel;
Using the power of the registry;
Accessing the Task Scheduler service.

Now about these methods in more detail.

1. Using the capabilities of the control panel.

We concentrate and do the following manipulations:

Note: if you have less than 2 languages in the "General" tab, then this panel will not appear in the usual place. It is necessary to add at least 1 more language using the "Add".

2. Using the registry.

You need to use this method as follows:

3. We resort to the help of the "Task Scheduler" service.

You can easily check the operation of this service, just follow the step-by-step tips:

How do I restore the language bar in Windows XP?

I decided to minimize the information on XP, since few people have it left, but if suddenly there is such a person, you are welcome, click the plus sign and read

Let's look at 3 ways to get the Windows XP language bar back:

By resorting to the help of the "Toolbar";
Using "Language and regional standards»;
Using the ctfmon.exe file.

1. By resorting to the help of the "Toolbar".

This is the most quick way, in which you need to perform a few simple steps:

We click on the taskbar, all the same, with the right mouse button;
Select "Toolbar" from the list;
Next, click on the "Language bar" option;
On the contrary, you must put a bird.

2. Using the "Language and Regional Standards".

If you want to return the language bar in this way, you must adhere to the following points:

We turn to the painfully native button "Start";
move to the "Control Panel";
In the "Language and Regional Standards" menu, we meet the "Languages" tab and click on the "Details" button;
A window will open where you need to select "Languages and services text input", Where the first tab will contain" Parameters ";
Let's look down the tabs and see the "Language bar" click on it moving to the "Language bar options";
And then in the empty box, put a check mark "Display the language bar on the desktop";
And in the final phase we put "OK" in all previously opened windows.

3. Using the ctfmon.exe file.

This file is used to launch the language bar, it starts at boot and runs continuously in the background.

Click "Start" and then open the "Run" dialog box;
In the search box, type msconfig and click "OK";
V open window there will be a "Startup" tab;
Put a check mark in front of ctfmon.exe;
And restart your PC / laptop.

It also happens that ctfmon.exe is not present in the system configuration. Then click on "Start", open "Run" and enter regedit, then press "Enter". Following the given path "HKEY_USERS", then go to the folder ".DEFAULT", where we will find "Software" and enter it, and then we will find "Microsoft" and already in it we will find "Windows", which is fraught with "CurrentVersion", and there it is already a stone's throw to "Run". On the right side of the window, click right click mouse, select "Create" and "String parameter". In the "Parameter" field, enter ctfmon.exe, and in the "Value" field, write the following - C: \ WINDOWS \ system32 \ CTFMON.EXE. At the end of the procedure, restart the PC.

Missing Windows 10 language bar how to recover?

Well, if you are the owner of 10 Windows versions, then you can display the language bar using the following methods:

Through the "Control Panel";
Through the registry

1. We go to the "Control Panel".

To display the desired panel, you need to go through the following steps:

2. Through the registry.

If you have failed using the first method, then you need to turn to the second:

Press the combination of buttons "Windows" and "R" and in the window "Run" register regedit and confirm "Ok";
In the opened registry, we make the following path: from the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" folder, go to "Software", find "Microsoft" in it and look for the "Windows" folder, which contains the "CurrentVersion" folder, and already in this directory we find "Run";
On the right side of the window that opens, click right key mouse and click on the "Create" item;
And then open the "String parameter";
Right-click on it and select "Change";
In the line "Parameter" write its name (some kind), and in the line "Value" write "ctfmon" = "CTFMON.EXE";
Click "Ok" to save everything and restart your computer.

As for the restoration of the language bar in Windows 8, then, in fact, the algorithm for returning it "in operation" is similar to the previous version described.

Well, that's all, friends. Now you have joined the ranks of those hardened PC users who have the same knowledge. By the way, if you forgot, we remind you that hotkeys for changing the language on your computer can be assigned by you and have a key combination either Alt + Shift or Ctrl + Shift, and whatever combination you like, leave that one. We read, comment.

Setting the language in Windows involves not only switching to the desired input language, but also a number of parameters, which include keyboard layouts, installing and removing languages, specifying a location, and regional standards- the monetary unit of the country in which the user lives, the format used there for the date, time, decimal numbers, etc.

Regional and language settings are slightly different in Windows XP and Windows 7, so let's look at both options.

Setting the language in Windows XP.

In Windows XP, access to the language setting is performed through the control panel - shortcut " language and regional standards". The settings window for the options we need opens.

The window is divided into tabs, each of which runs language settings and installation regional settings.

On the " Regional options"the accepted in this region formats of time, date, numbers, currency units are set. For more detailed setting of regional parameters, click the" Settings "button.

In particular, you can select the separator of the integer and fractional parts (usually it is either a period or a comma), the number of fractional characters, which is used by default later in operating system... The digit group separator and the number of digits in the group allow you to group the digits of numbers for readability. The listed parameters are used as default parameters in Excel.

For monetary units, the type of positive and negative numbers is indicated, the unit itself and other settings.

In the time parameters, you can set the separator of the time components (hours, minutes, seconds), the designation of the time before lunch and after lunch (if not the 24-hour format), the general time format.

The date is set to a short and complete format, a separator of components.

To set the language on the "Languages" tab, click the "Details" button.

This action will open a window with more detailed language settings.

From the drop-down list, select the language used by default on the computer from those installed on the system.

To add another language to use, click the corresponding button. The language selection window will open.

A keyboard layout refers to the way you enter characters in a given language. Select an available layout from the list (usually Windows itself suggests a default layout). Multiple layouts can be added to each language.

The Language Bar button in the Language Preferences window allows you to specify the location and behavior of the Windows language bar.

More interesting is configuring keyboard settings... Press the corresponding button and wait for the settings window to appear.

Here, in the additional parameters of the keyboard, you can configure the disabling of the CAPS LOCK mode. By default, it is disabled by the corresponding keyboard key, which is enabled. However, you can configure the shutdown with the Shift key(the activation of the CAPS LOCK mode, as before, will be performed by the corresponding button). You can also change the keyboard shortcuts for different ways switching. The easiest way to change the language on your computer is to change the input language one by one. By default, this operation is performed by pressing the Shift + Alt keys. Click on the line that says "Switch between input languages" and choose the option that suits you best.

As you can see, switching the input language can be performed either by pressing Ctrl + Shift or Alt + Shift.

Additionally, you can add a keyboard shortcut to enable a specific input language. To do this, stand on the line with the inscription "Switch to ... [the input language we need]" and press the "Change keyboard shortcut" button again. In the window that opens, change the keyboard shortcut.

Setting the language in Windows 7.

From the links under the category name, you can already open some of the most popular language settings. However, we will click on the category name and move on.

The category is broken down into two subcategories - Date and Time and Regional and Language Options. We are interested in the second subcategory - click on its name and get into the window already familiar to us language and regional settings Windows standards 7.

This window also contains several tabs. On the "Formats" tab, the formats of currency units, date, time are set. For detailed settings there is a button "More options", which opens a settings window similar to that.

We will not consider in detail all the options presented in this window - everything is by analogy with Windows XP.

The "Location" tab of the "Regional and Language Options" window allows you to specify the location of the user, in order to know which software products suggest in which languages to communicate with him to technical support, etc. For example, if you try to download on the Microsoft website Internet Explorer or additions to it, you will be immediately offered a browser in the language that corresponds to the location specified in the Windows settings. Many sites and programs use this data to make the user's work more comfortable and relieve him of the need to once again indicate in which language the software products he needs.

The "Languages and Keyboards" tab is designed to customize the keyboard layout, keys for switching the input language, as well as add and remove languages from the system.

Click "Change keyboard" and get into the window for selecting the default language, installing the removal of languages and changing keyboard shortcuts, which is already familiar to us from Windows settings XP.

The "Add and Remove" buttons allow you to add additional languages and layouts to the system and remove them accordingly. From the drop-down list, specify the default language used when loading the OS.

Language bar settings pin it to the taskbar or place it anywhere on the desktop.

On the "Keyboard Switching" tab, you can configure the disabling of CAPS mode as in Windows XP. LOCK key Shift, as well as changing keyboard shortcuts to switch input languages. In addition, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to enable each language. And here this combination will be simpler than in Windows XP (3 keys were used for this at once).

It often happens that the icon for switching the keyboard layout from Russian to English and vice versa disappears on the taskbar. Why this is happening, we will not figure it out now, but consider several ways to restore the language bar.

Method 1. Toolbar.

Right-click at the bottom of the screen on the taskbar. In the menu that appears, select "Toolbar" => "Language bar". Press the left key once to check the box.

If it doesn't help, go to method number 2.

Method 2. Language and Regional Standards.

Click "Start" = > "Control Panel", = > "Regional and Language Options" = > "Languages" = > "More" = > "Language bar". We put a tick in front of "Display the language bar on the desktop".

If the checkbox is present, but the language bar is not displayed, uncheck the box and click "OK". Then we repeat the previous steps. In some cases, this helps.

If the "Language bar" button is not active,

then go to the "Advanced" tab, and uncheck the "Enable additional text services" item. Click "Apply" and "OK".

Method 3. File ctfmon.exe

Ctfmon.exe launches language bar at boot Windows and runs in background constantly.

At first, check for the presence of this file in the system: C: \ Windows \ system32 \ ctfmon.exe.

If the specified file exists, then skip the next steps and go to step"Secondly". If there is no file, restore it like this:

1. Insert the installation Windows disk XP

2. "Start" = > "Run" = > sfc / SCANNOW = > OK. This command will also check other system Windows files for removal.

2. Install.

3. We use.

Good luck and all the best!