Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

Hello guys,



I have a small problem that bothers me every now and then. My windows is originally german, but I have patched it with an english language pack.

While Windows is entirely in English, I have the problem that most applications install in German and I just hate it, especially when most of them do not allow to change the language through the settings afterwords!!



Is there a way to avoid that? I assume the default language for applications is defined somewhere, but where!?



Also some already installed applications appear randomly sometimes in german and sometimes in english.... I assume it is the same problem behind this as well.



Thanks in advance!

Reply 1 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

Could you go into your Control Panel, open up Regional and Language, click on the Keyboards and Languages tab and tell us what your Display Language is? This will tell you what your OS language should be. Also go to the Administrative tab and let us know what the language is for Language for non-Unicode programs.



Also, do you use different accounts or stick to one user account?

Reply 2 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

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Originally Posted by Rickards12 Could you go into your Control Panel, open up Regional and Language, click on the Keyboards and Languages tab and tell us what your Display Language is? This will tell you what your OS language should be. Also go to the Administrative tab and let us know what the language is for Language for non-Unicode programs. Also, do you use different accounts or stick to one user account?

There is no "Display Language" under Keyboards and Languages.

The default input language is German as the keyboard is German, but this should have no effect over the system and programs language.



I have set the Language for non-Unicode programs to Bulgarian as I otherwise have problems with files in Cyrillic.

Reply 3 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

True, you're on Professional, so you wouldn't see it. Officially, language packs are only supported for Windows 7 Ultimate.



Could you tell me how you patched the English Language pack? With that information I can continue from there. It sounds as though your registry didn't register all the settings in the appropriate area.

Reply 4 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

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Originally Posted by Rickards12 True, you're on Professional, so you wouldn't see it. Officially, language packs are only supported for Windows 7 Ultimate. Could you tell me how you patched the English Language pack? With that information I can continue from there. It sounds as though your registry didn't register all the settings in the appropriate area.

Yep, officially Pro doesn't support multi-languages.



I used "dism /online /add-package /packagepath:driveletterdirlp.cab" to add the language pack and then deleted the german one from the registry.



The OS is entirely in English, only third party applications very often install in german (or start in german) as if German is somewhere selected to be the default system language...

Reply 5 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

Looks like you deleted german in a wrong way. I used to delete LP through command prompt

Reply 6 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

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Originally Posted by James D Looks like you deleted german in a wrong way. I used to delete LP through command prompt

I know only one way to delete a registry record



Deleting the actual language pack should not have any effect IMO, as it is no longer in use and as I said - it is not the OS itself but third party software that installs itself in german for some reason...

Reply 7 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

1. dism /image:D: /Get-Packages you should write on a paper name of Client LP and it is a LONG name

2. dism /image:D: /scratchDir:D:scratch /Remove-Package /PackageName:



ALSO

dism /image:D: /Set-SKUIntlDefaults:en-EN (or en-US if you installed this one)

Reply 8 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

The proper method to install and uninstall a language pack is to use lpksetup.exe, but I don't know if this command exists in the Professional edition.



I bet there are traces in your registry where it thinks your OS is still in German. If you do have lpksetup.exe, run the following command with administrative rights:



lpksetup.exe /u de-DE



This will uninstall the German language pack entirely from your system.

Reply 9 : Change system default language for new applications!? (Win 7 Pro)

I believe she should just search in registry de-DE and change it to en-EN after all steps I said above.