Can't install a language pack

Anonymous
2012-11-04T12:22:27+00:00

Hello,

When i install a language pack, after the download and at the end of the installation progress bar, it says:

The following updates were not installed:

French Language Pack - Windows 8 for x64-based Systems - (KB2607607) [fr-FR_LP]

And there is no information about the error(s).

What can i do ? Is there somewhere i could see a detailed log with possibly more information about errors that occured ?

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-07-03T20:15:30+00:00

    Same problem here as most of the other posters.  I have the English and Japanese language packs installed, but when I try to install the French or Spanish language pack, they they won't install.  I really don't feel like doing a "refresh" as I don't want to have to install all my 3rd party programs again.  Frustrating.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-07-04T09:34:07+00:00

    Interesting. I'm having problems with the French language pack which is now in a funny half installed state; shows up but doesn't work correctly and I can't remove it. I too have Japanese and English (Australia) packs installed, in addition to English (US).

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-08-09T07:07:13+00:00

    I'm also having this problem. I'm now using a UK keyboard as I bought the PC in Hong Kong and have returned home.

    MS are eons behind Google and Apple in terms of usability. If it wasn't the only OS that played most PC games I frankly wouldn't ever give them a penny.

    As I've finished writing this it seems to have worked, although of course I have to restart (another antiquated necessity). If it doesn't ultimately work I'll be back on here.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-08-21T22:00:19+00:00

    I've had the same problem with Windows 8 Pro.

    It was a laptop installed with Korean / Chinese / Japanese language packs.

    I reset everything to default US English and uninstalled Microsoft update KB2723161 (needed for PinYin).

    The original administrator signed up with a Microsoft account. Now this account has been turned into a normal user account and a local Windows account has been set up as the administrator.

    After having everything in English again, I cannot reinstall these language packs for any user, including the administrator. There are some suggestions on microsoft.com that if a language pack fails to install via the control panel, there's always the option to get the manual download of the language pack and see if that works.

    Now guess what, exactly the languages that I need are not available for manual download :(

    The Windows troubleshooting is of little help. Every time it says it fixes Windows updates but no difference. Cleaning out c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution manually has other bad effects, I've looked around and seen many suggestions but only 1 seems to work all the time: a full reinstall.

    We have other computers at the same location, same hardware, same software installed. The other computers have absolutely no problem with language packs so this all points to some kind of a corruption in the locally downloaded files.

    How difficult can it be to put an "apt-get clean" in Windows???

    This computer is 11000km (~7000 miles) away from me so I would kindly want to request a decent solution that doesn't require a Factory Reset or re-install.

    Exactly my problem: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-8/Failure-Upon-Language-Pack-Installation-Windows-8-Pro/td-p/1088353

    Although I'm dealing with Dell systems

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-09-02T12:30:34+00:00

    Same problem here!

    I just wasted 2 days trying to install the English language pack -.-

    I tried to install Russian LP, and it worked fine -.-

    The problem appeared after I refreshed my system. Before I had installed English language pack... I think it's the one of Windows updates which cause the problem.

    I refreshed my system and got the same problem now. Before I also had the English language pack installed.

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