How to Solve Error IME is disabled in Microsoft Windows 10

Introduction

This article will give an advice on solving an error of ‘IME is disabled’ in Microsoft Windows 10. As an assumption, this article is actually has a relation or a connection with the previous article. It is an article with the title of ‘How to Solve Error Cannot type anything in Type here to search textfield in Microsoft Windows 10’ where it is available in this link. Because of this error, the multilanguage keybord using Japanese and Korean language cannot switch to Hiragana and Hangul respectively.

The following is the display of the language preference keyboard option :

Furthermore, the following is the detail of the japanese language preference option :

The following image is showing that the Japanese language preference keyboard is using Microsoft IME keyboard type :

Moreover, the following is the Korean language preference option exist in the task bar which is also using Microsoft IME keyboard type :

Solution

Actually, one of the solution which is considered to be related or it will have an impact exist in that article. It is the article with the title of ‘How to Solve Error Cannot type anything in Type here to search textfield in Microsoft Windows 10’ in this link. Apparently, after performing the solution in that article, the Microsoft IME keyboard is suddenly enabled. All of the keyboard preferences using Microsoft IME is also enabled and the error is solved. It is simple actually. Just follow the steps below :

1. Just run Windows + R. The following window box will appear :

2. Type ‘C:\Windows\system32\ctfmon.exe’ in the textfield above as in the following image :

3. Finally, click the OK button.

4. Last but not least, just try and use the keyboard again. In order to make sure that the IME is enabled.