Language on Windows 10

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rosv_297

I'm having trouble with the 'language' settings in a basic Lenovo laptop running on Windows 10 Home updated to the current version of Windows 10. I bought the laptop about in December 2019 and, when Windows 10 self-installed the first time I used it, I was not given an option to do away with 'speech recognition' which I don't need at all and seems a waste of resources in a machine with a weak processor, low RAM and 60 GB storage. But nowhere was I given the option not to install 'speech recognition' nor of doing away with the 'US English' package (since I am helping people doing research in Oxford, UK, and the papers are to be written in British English).

So, from day one I found my installation cluttered with all sorts of language packages (not only the unwanted 'US English' but, for some mysterious reason, also 'Uganda English') in addition to the full 'speech recognition'. My efforts to get rid of all that were futile: the command 'uninstall' beside most of them shows with a faint shade which means 'forget about uninstalling me!'.


I was ready to accept the Microsoft knows better and when it ignores us it is only for our own good. So I began to work with the new machine and forgot about the language packages. The reason why, a month on from that unlucky start, I am asking your informed help is that, all of a sudden, my word processor -- 'Apache OpenOffice', which has always worked without a glitch in my older three other computers (two with W10 and one with W7) -- flags in red underlining whatever I write, irrespective of the language I set for spelling correction.


MY QUESTION: can I remove all those language packages plus the whole 'speech recognition' one from my installation of Windows 10, version 1909 (2)?

Many thanks.

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