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Re:Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout ... by PeterisP on Sunday June 30, 2019 @04:21PM (#20320271)
If a a proper diagnosis of a configuration screwed up in some weird way is expected to take longer than a reinstall, then it's not worth to try and diagnose.

In a similar manner, nobody ever suggests "just removing" interesting malware - since properly checking if a system is actually clean takes so much more time and effort than a reinstall, you have to have a really good reason to not simply nuke the system from orbit just to be sure. (possibly before taking an image for future forensics/attribution).

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Re:Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout ... by daemin on Monday July 01, 2019 @06:23AM (#20323992)
The issue is that a reinstall of the OS is pretty quick, but getting all the other applications downloaded, installed, activated, and having settings configured takes an incredibly long time.

The other issue is that if you try to dive in deep and fix the problem by trying out various things and running diagnostics etc, you may in the end still need to reinstall.

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