Turn On or Off Text Suggestions for Hardware Keyboard in Windows 10

Brink · 23 Sep 2019

Windows 10 Tip: Text suggestions expands language support | Windows Experience Blog

Editor’s note: We’re back with the latest batch of weekly Windows 10 tips posts, which highlight some of the many helpful features that come with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make your daily life easier with a streamlined update process, as well as clean and simple experiences for your desktop.

Text suggestions for the hardware keyboard is a learning tool originally introduced in RS4, and with RS5 it has expanded language support. If you’d like to try it out in one of the supported languages, you can do so by enabling the  “Show text suggestions as I type”  feature under  Settings > Devices > Typing.

Check it out in action, in Hungarian:

Here is the list of languages added in this update:

Afrikaans (South Africa)
Albanian (Albania)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Armenian (Armenia)
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)
Basque (Spain)
Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
Catalan (Spain)
Croatian (Croatia)
Czech (Czech Republic)
Danish (Denmark)
Dutch (Netherlands)
Estonian (Estonia)
Finnish (Finland)
Galician (Spain)
Georgian (Georgia)
Greek (Greece)
Hausa (Nigeria)
Hebrew (Israel)
Hungarian (Hungary)
Indonesian (Indonesia)
Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
Kiswahili (Kenya)
Latvian (Latvia)
Lithuanian (Lithuania)
Macedonian (Macedonia)
Malay (Malaysia)
Norwegian (Bokmal) (Norway)
Persian (Iran)
Polish (Poland)
Romanian (Romania)
Serbian (Serbia) (Latin)
Serbian (Serbia) (Cyrillic)
Slovak (Slovakia)
Slovenian (Slovenia)
Swedish (Sweden)
Turkish (Turkey)
Ukrainian (Ukraine)
Uzbek (Uzbekistan) (Latin)
Hindi (India)

stevehero · 25 Apr 2020

Here's a PowerShell method for toggling that setting on and off.

Code:

$thePath = 'HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings'
$orgVal = Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path $thePath -Name 'EnableHwkbTextPrediction'
if ($orgVal -eq 0) {
Set-ItemProperty -Path $thePath -Name 'EnableHwkbTextPrediction' -Value 00000001
Write-Host The setting for text suggestions for your keyboard is now on.
}
if ($orgVal -eq 1) {
Set-ItemProperty -Path $thePath -Name 'EnableHwkbTextPrediction' -Value 00000000
Write-Host The setting for text suggestions for your keyboard is now off.
}

smitty · 17 Oct 2020

hi guys, thanks for that info, it's neat to have handy.

Is there a way to disable those suggestions for specific things, like captsha boxes ? the words popup over the captsha word(s) and hides it.

idealy i'd prefer if Windows would know to not do that, or maybe show it under where i'm typing. Is there a way to change the position of those suggestions, from over the cursor to under it ?

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