Windows 10 English (United Kingdom) local experience pack keeps trying to install on my Windows 10 workstations, but I never knowingly rolled it out.

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Grant Barrie

I'm currently working on a network of some 2000 users with approximately 1800 Windows 10 computers. I mention this up-front because I see a lot of responses on posts that talk about going to an individual computer and manually performing a particular task to alleviate a symptom. I really need a solution (or guidance towards finding a solution) that can be performed on 1800 computers, and visiting every one really isn't an option. I am looking explicitly for solutions that are as automated as possible and can be rolled out using Group Policy, SCCM or other automation tools.


I'm noticing a lot of notifications from our 1800 computers that are saying that "English (United Kingdom) local experience pack" couldn't install, and it will try again later. I do _not_ want this language pack installed on my network, and I need this to stop. As far as I know, I've not authorised the deployment of this pack and I have no idea why it is trying to be rolled out across the network.


I believe this is the same symptom as found in this post: English (United Kingdom) local experience pack | How to remove and have preference respected. which has been locked, but no resolution was found. If I may politely ask, please don't lock my post until this is resolved.


I would greatly appreciate some pointers for the following:

  1. Where is this installation likely coming from?
    1. I've checked SCCM and we're not deploying anything from there.
    2. SCCM is not being used to roll out updates, we're using a WSUS server for that
    3. Our deployment image doesn't have this language pack installed.
  2. How do I stop this local experience pack (and any others) from ever being installed again?
  3. How do I cancel/stop the current local experience pack from being installed or notifying my users constantly about it's failure to install?

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