Cannot create local users if you are using Chinese, Japanese, or Korean IME on Windows 10

Some users encounter the problem that they can not create local users when setting up a new user Windows 10 device using Input method editor (EMI). In this post, we will provide a workaround to mitigate this problem.

An input method editor, usually abbreviated as IME, is a component or program of the operating system that can input any data, such as keyboard keys or mouse movements. This allows users to enter characters and symbols not found on their input devices.

Can not create local users if you are using a Chinese, Japanese, and Korean IME

According to Microsoft, this new known problem could affect users who use IME for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. However, this problem does not affect the use of a Microsoft account during an out of field experience (OOBE).

Workaround to mitigate the problem

To resolve this problem, set the keyboard language to English when creating the user or use a Microsoft account to supplement OOBE. You can set the keyboard language in your preferred language after creating the user.

Once OOBE is complete and you access the Windows desktop, you can rename the user you just created or create a new local user.

To see the video demo provided by Microsoft, on how to proceed.

In addition, it is known that some input method editor (IME) may become do not answer or may have high CPU usage. The concerned IMEs include Simplified Chinese (ChsIME.EXE) and Traditional Chinese (ChtIME.EXE) with Changjie / Quick keyboard.

This problem of high CPU utilization can be mitigated by configuring the TabletInputService service to use the default configuration by doing the following: