Trouble with changing Windows 7 display language

CarBastard

CarBastard

4,741
Colombia
Bogota,Colombia
GTP_ARP93
Hi everyone,

I just bought a new laptop and encountered a problem with changing the display language. The thing is that my girlfriend was the one who used it when new and she set the display language as english. Today I tried changing it (I can't bare that spanish/english mixup between Windows and every other program) but to no avail. I used Windows help and they tell me to go to Control Panel and look it up under "Clock, language and region" but I only find "change input language" in there. I also tried trough Windows update but there's no such thing as extra language packs there to download. I'm really puzzled. I saw a video in Windows help site where they did the change but I noticed they have an extra option I don't have called "change display language".

I checked the Windows folder in the hard drive and I saw that there's a folder called es-ES which contained some .dll.mui files which I believe mean the language pack is indeed installed, I just don't know how the hell to activaite it or whatever.

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium with SP1 installed.

Can someone PLEASE help me???
 
I just searched in the Start menu bar "Language" and a "Region and Language" application was the first result. The first dropbox looks like it should do what you want.

Edit: I just changed that and didn't notice anything changing, actually. Try it anyway.
 
I thought that you couldn't change the language of Windows unless you have Ultimate.
 
DQuaN
I thought that you couldn't change the language of Windows unless you have Ultimate.
Click to expand...

That must be it then. Pardon my ignorance :lol:.

Question solved I guess, though I keep thinking that it's tremendously stupid charging me extra money just for using my laptop in what's the world third or so most used language.

Thanks Microsoft... 👎.
 
When you start the system the first time (or first install Windows) it asks for your language preference. It can't be changed after that.
 

Latest Posts

Back