WD2002: On-Screen Symbol and Standard Keyboards Are Still Available After You Remove Handwriting Recognition Feature

dont install office 2002 components with wrong options (handwriting etc) as you cant uninstall some of it!

http://kbalertz.com/282599/CTFMON.aspx
this link mentions TIP (text input processor), I happen to see CTF\TIP registry entry today. so I checked HKLM, problem solved!

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CTF\TIP\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}]
...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CTF\TIP\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}\Category\Item\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}]
"Description"="On-screen keyboard"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CTF\TIP\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}\Category\Item\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}\{246ECB87-C2F2-4ABE-905B-C8B38ADD2C43}]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CTF\TIP\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}\LanguageProfile]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CTF\TIP\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}\LanguageProfile\0x00000009]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CTF\TIP\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}\LanguageProfile\0x00000009\{0965500C-82F3-49C2-9F00-01C2FEACAA0B}]
"Description"="On-Screen Standard Keyboard"
"IconFile"="C:\\WINDOWS\\ime\\softkbd.dll"
"IconIndex"=dword:00000000
"Display Description"="@C:\\WINDOWS\\ime\\softkbd.dll,-400"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CTF\TIP\{F89E9E58-BD2F-4008-9AC2-0F816C09F4EE}\LanguageProfile\0x00000009\{B2A54871-05F6-4BFC-B97D-0FDF0CBFA57D}]
"Description"="On-Screen Symbol Keyboard"
"IconFile"="C:\\WINDOWS\\ime\\softkbd.dll"
"IconIndex"=dword:00000001
"Display Description"="@C:\\WINDOWS\\ime\\softkbd.dll,-401"

the whole nine yard is here. even office 2003 leaves some weird registry entry for handwriting stuff, so just remove this key and it wont be available. I mean, the handwriting and softkeyboard wont show up in langbar (ctfmon) when you dont want them.