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I have changed my windows language from Greek to English, but the Automatic Repair language is still Greek, and I want to change it to English.

Automatic Repair

(image not mine)

Yeah, this is the screen in Greek, and I want to change it to Enghish.

Ramhound
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EKons
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From an admin prompt run "bcdedit". You should see something like this: BCDedit output example

To change language enter:

  • bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US
  • bcdedit /set {bootmgr} locale en-US

This should switch UI language to English also for recovery... For other languages, e.g. Italian you can use "... locale it-IT" etc.

hexaae
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On Windows 10 20H2, none of the answers helped me to change the recovery mode language. Here is what helped me to change the recovery mode language (and some system messages during boots and reboots) without editing images and making any manual manipulations with installation media:

  1. Set all available system languages to the language of your choice (English in my case). This step may be excessive, but that's what I did: in bcdedit, in user settings, in the administrative language settings.

  2. Run RegEdit end go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Language key where change the InstallLanguage key value to the language id you want to be set in the recovery:

regedit installlanguage

Refer to the list of language codes (or here) and enter the hex value of your choice (0409 for en-US).

  1. Reboot your PC.

  2. Download the official MediaCreationTool and run it. Choose the Upgrade this PC option:

mediacreationtool upgrade

That's it! Follow the linear progress to upgrade your Windows. In the end, I've got the English language everywhere including the recovery mode and the most recent Windows version with all programs and settings kept.

Alexander Pravdin
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You may try to add the corresponding language packs for each package in the image, including the base Windows PE language pack.

For example, when you add the French (fr-fr) language pack to the base Windows PE image, and then to each of the optional components that are present in the default Windows RE image

You may refer to this detailed process:

Walkthrough: Create a Windows RE Image

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744525(v=ws.10).aspx

Adding Languages

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825125.aspx#BKMK_AddLanguagePacks

Kate Li
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when i downloaded my windows recovery, it came with the option of only choosing 5 languages, all in european countries and none of them was english. I had to install windows using google translate. after installing, i downloaded english language pack after several efforts, and it did manage to change the display language to English, however not everything was changed. when you boot the computer, the language was in danish, and when you would get an error from windows it would be displayed in danish

I tried the solution of using bcdedit on command prompt. Command prompt showed me it has accepted the commands, however nothing happend. I then went ahead to follow this option of changing the language registry files, as illustrated above and it worked great. it worked perfectly. Thank you for this hack....

Dean Robin
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