Solved How to change language on Windows 7 Ultimate

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Nick Sergeant

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Hello,

I inherited an Acer laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and I have upgraded to Ultimate so I can change the language to English.
Everything on the laptop is in Swedish at the moment but I can figure out some.

On the Microsoft site I heard that I could use Windows Update and select optional updates and "Under the Windows 7 Language Packs category,select the desired language pack." That's where I'm stuck, because I don't see any Language Packs under optional updates.

Does anyone have any tips?

Thanks.
 

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Is it offering any updates at all?
 

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Yes, there were 89 important updates that I have started loading. It's very slow though.
And about 7 optional updates that I looked at but did not note down.
 

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Hello Nick, :-)

The tutorial below can help show you how to change the display language to what you wanted.

Display Language - Change
 

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Thanks, Brink --

looks like I'll need to install a language pack for English so I'll follow the tutorial once these other updates are done.
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
AusPC build
OS
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z97-PRO(Wi-Fi ac)
Memory
16GB Corsair (2x8GB) DDR3 2133MHz Dimm, Unbuffered, 11
Graphics Card(s)
Leadtek nVidia Quadro K620 PCI Express 3.0 x16, 2GB DDR3, 12
Sound Card
(1) Bluetooth Hands-free Audio (2) NVIDIA High Definition
Monitor(s) Displays
Eizo
Screen Resolution
1920 x nnnn
Hard Drives
(1) Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120G SCSI Disk Device
(2) Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120G SCSI Disk Device
(3) ST2000DM 001-1CH164 SCSI Disk Device
(4) LaCie Rugged FW/USB USB Device
(5) WD Elements 10B8 USB Device
(6) WD Elements 10B8 USB Devic
PSU
850W Seasonic S12D Power Supply PSUSEAS12-D850W
Case
Black PC-9F Mid Tower Chassis (USB3)
Keyboard
Dell
Mouse
Mionix Naos 7000 Optical Gaming Mouse, ADNS-3100 Optical Sen
Antivirus
MSE plus Malwarebytes
Browser
Firefox
Good news -- the language change steps worked successfully.

Thanks Brink for your help.

Unrelated, I still see occasional dialogues in Swedish, like when logging into Facebook or Google for the first time in a while. But I see them on my desktop too which was always in English. So I guess it's a feature of living abroad. Might be related to country settings.
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
AusPC build
OS
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
CPU
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z97-PRO(Wi-Fi ac)
Memory
16GB Corsair (2x8GB) DDR3 2133MHz Dimm, Unbuffered, 11
Graphics Card(s)
Leadtek nVidia Quadro K620 PCI Express 3.0 x16, 2GB DDR3, 12
Sound Card
(1) Bluetooth Hands-free Audio (2) NVIDIA High Definition
Monitor(s) Displays
Eizo
Screen Resolution
1920 x nnnn
Hard Drives
(1) Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120G SCSI Disk Device
(2) Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120G SCSI Disk Device
(3) ST2000DM 001-1CH164 SCSI Disk Device
(4) LaCie Rugged FW/USB USB Device
(5) WD Elements 10B8 USB Device
(6) WD Elements 10B8 USB Devic
PSU
850W Seasonic S12D Power Supply PSUSEAS12-D850W
Case
Black PC-9F Mid Tower Chassis (USB3)
Keyboard
Dell
Mouse
Mionix Naos 7000 Optical Gaming Mouse, ADNS-3100 Optical Sen
Antivirus
MSE plus Malwarebytes
Browser
Firefox
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