Language Pack Windows 7

Windows 7; Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Instrucţiuni To start the download, click the Download button and then do one of the following, or select another language from Change Language and then click Change. Under Choose a display language, click in the list box and select the language you want to have displayed. Click Apply and then OK. You will be prompted to Log off now. Do so then log back in. That’s it, you are now operating in Windows 7 using a different language. When you are ready to change back to another language, just reopen the Region.

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We now live in a global village, if we want to become better than others, learning the second or the third language should be required, it can make us more competitive in our career. The best way to learn a new language is to make an environment full of that, how to do it? According to a recent statistics of Global Stats in January 2011, all versions of Windows in the usage share of operating systems is 91.53 percent, Windows 7 has 29.12 percent in the statistics, I guess you are one of the Windows users, am I right?

Illustration: Microsoft Windows 7 operating system
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Take me for example, I am Chinese, but change my Windows language to English, changing the Windows language interface is the best way I suggest to make an environment for learning new language. So, no matter what is your purpose, you may like to change the Windows 7 language, there are two ways to switch current language to another language. The first is to download Windows 7 language pack, the second is to install language pack via Windows Update.

Download Windows 7 Language Pack

As simple as title says, the Windows 7 language pack can be downloaded from official Windows Update site. A total of 35 language packs include Arabic, Bulgarian ,Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonia, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Ukrainian.

PCDIY puts those download links on another post and make them to be neat and tidy for easy viewing. For downloading, please read: Windows 7 Language Packs (RTM MUI, Direct Download Links from Windows Update). After clicking the download link of the specific language, a windows pop up asking to open, save or cancel. Please save the file on disk because the file size is bigger than 150 MB.

Image A-1: Save the language pack installer on disk.

After double clicking the file, the installation will begin to process.

Image A-2: Display language installation is in process.

In this step, the installation is complete, in the following steps, go into the Control Panel and find the regional settings and change them.

Change Display Language in Windows 7

The two screenshots are the same but it is a little different in “View by” option, see below:

Image B-1: Region and Language settings in Control Panel.

Select the “View by” option to “Large icons”, there is an item called “Region and Language” and this is the place you can change the current windows display language to another language.

Image B-2: An item called “Change Display Language” in Control Panel.

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Select the “View by” option to “Category”, there is an item called “Change Display Language” and this place is the same as the last image.

Image B-3: Choose a display language that you have installed.

For example, the Chinese language pack has been installed, so it can be chosen now.

Install Language Pack via Windows Update

It is easiest way to install language pack for Windows7, see image B-3, there is an “Install/uninstall language” button under “Display language” section, click the button, and then follow the steps.

Language packs are available only in Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise, if you are not using either one of both, the Display language section will not be visible. Lastly, changing this setting requires a reboot of the machine, this setting will not take effect until the machine is rebooted.

There are many available language packs for computers running in various O.S. Language Packs are the resources which are required to translate all or just the part of user interface into the specific language in windows 7.

In order to change the display language of your computer system, you must need to install the language pack. Languages Packs can be added and installed in Windows 7 with:

Multilingual User Interface (MUI)
Language Interface Packs (LIPs)

In windows 7, User Interface Resources are separated from the code binaries and packaged in language packs which are used to build language specific versions of the operating system. These language packs delivers the operating system user interface in the desired language. Read this article to learn how to install a language pack in windows 7.

Steps to Install A Language Pack in Windows 7

Step 1: Go to the “Control Panel” by clicking the “Start” button.

Step 2: Select “System and Security” in the “Control Panel” window.

Step 3: You may see various options, click on “Windows Update”.

Step 4: Now click on “Check for updates” in order to check for the new updates.

Step 5: After checking for new updates, click on “38 optional updates are available” as shown in the image.

Step 6: You may find the list of optional languages available. Scroll down to the language section and select the language you want and check the box.