How to change system language of Windows 7 Home Premium from russian to english?

Anonymous
2009-12-22T21:15:27+00:00

How to change system language of Windows 7 Home Premium from russian to english?

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Anonymous
2009-12-22T21:18:02+00:00

You will need to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate for this capability. Only Windows 7 Ultimate includes Multilingual User Interface (Language Pack) support. You can then install the English Language Pack from under Regional and Language settings in Control Panel.

You can do an Anytime Upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate which will preserve your personal files and settings:

Learn more: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-anytime-upgrade

Andre Da Costa http://adacosta.spaces.live.com http://www.activewin.com

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-04-10T04:32:51+00:00

    The tool to change this in Windows 7 Home Premium (Basic, etc.) is called Vistalizator.  It works, and it's awesome!  Look it up in Google or DuckDuckGo.

    +1 to the person who asked, "And you wonder why we hate you, Microsoft?" Microsoft: the company that cripples their software in order to sell incomplete versions in someone else's language, when they have a language pack you could easily install, but they won't let you, unless you upgrade. The run-on sentence is inspired by hate. This is from a normally sweet geek.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-03-20T09:54:38+00:00

    The only Windows upgrade I'm going to buy is the one to OS X.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-02-28T09:01:07+00:00

    Maybe I am missing the point in all this, Why upgrade to Ultimate?

    If you need two operate in more than one language sure upgrade to ultimate.

    But if you want a single change, why not just buy the upgrade to the same level but in the language required.

    I had an english laptop stolen, had to buy a new one locally and it comes only with Russian Windows 7.

    So off to Microsoft web site, download a Home Premium English and hopefully off we go.

    Unless anyone has tried this and it does not work??

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-02-01T18:17:39+00:00

    And they wonder why piracy proliferates. I have the same problem, now I'm forced to download an English version of Windows 7 from a torrent and activate it with my legally obtained license. Please Microsoft could you enter the 21st century with the rest of the world? I guess you still  need to learn a lot from Apple.

    I wonder what kind of lame "update forced requirements" you'll add to Windows 8? Maybe you can only add mouse support to Windows 8 Ultimate!!! or like you did with Windows XP at a time you could only play a DVD on your computer if we gave you more money. There's tons and tons of silly little things you can do to squeeze every single penny from your users , but I'm sure you have it all covered.

    Your users are getting tired of this Microsoft, your Windows Phone huge failure is just proof of that.

    Thx for screwing your clients Microsoft, keep enjoying it while it lasts.

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