So, I'm using a laptop that's got a Spanish (Chile) - Latin America keyboard layout. At home I plug in a USB keyboard that uses the English (United States) - Dvorak International custom layout, so I use the language bar and keyboard shortcut to switch between them. Recently, I've been having problems with the keyboard languages: unwanted ones appear on the language bar! Specifically, English (US) - US and Spanish (Mexico) - Latin America. This is bothersome because sometimes Dvorak and US Standard get switched without prompt - it drives me crazy when it happens - and I need to press the shortcut twice just to get from my laptop's language to my USB keyboard's since now I have 3 main languages installeh instead of just two. I can fix this temporarily by adding the culprit languages in the menu, then deleting them. But they keep coming back! I figured that this may be caused by some applications, but there's no related setting in any of them that could fix this behavior. Is there any way I can fix this or, even better, prevent programs from installing new keyboard layouts altogether?

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