Display Language - Change

How to Change the Display Language in Vista and Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise​

   Information

This will show you how to change the display language that Vista and Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise uses to display text in wizards, dialog boxes, menus, and other items in the user interface (UI).

By default Windows uses the language selected during it's installation.

   Note

When you install a language pack and change the display language to it, this will also automatically add a keyboard input language for this language in the Language bar.

EXAMPLE: BEFORE and AFTER Display Language Change

OPTION ONE

To Change the UI Display Language in only Your User Account

NOTE: This option will only be applied to the user account that this is done in. 1. Open the Control Panel (icon view), and click on the Region and Language icon.

2. Click on the Keyboards and Languages tab, then choose a display language and click on OK. (see screenshots below)
NOTE: If you do not see a Choose a display language option or the language that you want, then this means that you will need to install the language pack that you want to change the display language to first.
3. Click Log off now. (see screenshot below)
WARNING: This will log you off immediately. Be sure to save and close all work and opened programs first.

OPTION TWO

To Change the System UI Display Language

NOTE: This have the administrator's display language applied in the Welcome screen (log on) and in system accounts. 1. Log on to an administrator account.

2. Do OPTION ONE first to set the administrator account's display language to be the what you want to be applied to the system, then log back on to the same administrator account.

3. Use step 4 in the tutorial below to check the Welcome screen and system acccounts box. How to Copy Your Region and Language Settings to New Users and Welcome Screen

OPTION THREE

To Change the Default UI Display Language of New User Accounts

NOTE: This will have any new user account created on the computer to have the administrator's display language applied to it. Existing user accounts aren't affected. 1. Log on to an administrator account.

2. Do OPTION ONE first to set the administrator account's display language to be the what you want to be applied to the system, then log back on to the same administrator account.

3. Use step 5 in the tutorial below to check the New user accounts box. How to Copy Your Region and Language Settings to New Users and Welcome Screen
That's it,
Shawn

Related Tutorials

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• How to Install and Uninstall Display Languages in Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise
• How to Add or Remove a Keyboard Input Language in Windows 7
• How to Create a Region and Language Shortcut in Windows 7
• How to Change the Keyboard Layout in Windows 7
• How to Hide or Show the Language Bar in Windows 7
• How to Copy Your Region and Language Settings to New Users and Welcome Screen
• How to Create a "Install or Uninstall Display Languages" Shortcut in Windows 7
• How to Overwrite the Display Language of All Users with the System Display Language
• How to Create a "Windows Live Language Setting" Shortcut
• How to Change the Language for Non-Unicode Programs in Windows

 

[jokutty]

Hi brink,
I brought a mini netbook in poland and the language is in polish,,,this is with wimdow 7starter and i want a lot to change it to english plz hel me...coz when i open the computer everything in polish and i dont get much about it plz do help me jo

 

[Brink]

Hello Jo, and welcome to Seven Forums.

I'm sorry, but you can only change the display language in the Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions. The Windows 7 Starter editions can only use the same language as you purchased it as.

However, you are able to change the keyboard input language to another one in Windows 7 Starter.

 

[jokutty]

its ok brink thank you for replying.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome. Sorry about that.

 

[abomar]

PLEASE HELP ME

HOW I CAN CHANGE LANG FROM ARABIC TI ENG IN WIN 7 HOME PREMIUM ?????

 

[Bill2]

To have a true english interface, you need to have win7 enterprise or ultimate, those editions let you download free language packs through windows update. With home premium, you can switch to an english keyboard layout and date time format etc. but the display language, all menus including start menu and messages will remain arabic, so not the ideal situation.

Your options are:

1) Anytime upgrade to Ultimate, then download and install the english language pack.

2) I'm not 100 % sure this'll work but if you have the time and inclination, you can back up everything on this computer (if this is OEM preinstalled, create a set of recovery disks), then borrow or download an english language win7 install disk, install home premium and activate with the COA key/retail key/whatever key you got with the purchase. Now, this may or may not work so you must be prepared to go back to the original install.

A word of caution- there are hacks and tools floating around that claim to change the language on ineligible editions. Stay away from those, they'll mess up your activation and licensing files.

 

[punky]

can somebody tell me how do I change the language from German to English...

 

[zigzag3143]

can somebody tell me how do I change the language from German to English...

What version (enterprise, ultimate, pro, home, etc) do you have?

 

[punky]

well actually, I do not really know :S:S ...where can I see what version is it?

 

[zigzag3143]

well actually, I do not really know :S:S ...where can I see what version is it?

start>search>type winver

 

[punky]

this is what I got from typing that:

Microsoft Windows
Version 6.1 (build 7601: Service Pack 1)
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
Das Betriebssystem Windows 7 Starter und die zugehorige Benutzeroberflache sind durch Marken- und andere rechtshangige bzw. bestehende gewerbliche Schutz- und urheberrechte in den vereingten Staaten und anderen Landern geschutzt

Dieses Produkt ist unter den Microsoft-Softwarelizenbedingungen lizenziert fur: Saturn

 

[Brink]

Hello Punky, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Right above all that, you should see what edition you have instead like below.

 

[punky]

thnx for welcoming me....and I'm really sorry cuz right now I am feeling like an amateur LOL ... It's Windows 7 Starter

 

[zigzag3143]

thnx for welcoming me....and I'm really sorry cuz right now I am feeling like an amateur LOL ... It's Windows 7 Starter

Cant change it.

 

[punky]

do you know if there's a way I could install Windows XP in it ???

 

[zigzag3143]

do you know if there's a way I could install Windows XP in it ???

You mean dual boot? Or replace win 7?

 

[punky]

I mean replacing it with XP

 

[Brink]

Punky,

Sure, you could boot from your Windows XP installation DVD, and start the installation process to format the HDD and install XP. However, you need to make sure that you have XP driver versions for all of your devices and have them downloaded and saved somewhere before doing so to install them after you done with installing XP.

 

[punky]

Cuz my dad tried this procedure yesterday but it did not work that's why I'm asking...