Windows 10: Can't change Default system UI language in Windows 10

I'm trying to install Windows 11 with an ISO File, but I can't use the option to keep my files and apps because the setup and my PC are in different languages.My PC was imported from Netherlands, and I change all language settings to English en-US When I try to change the language with DISM /image:C: /set-uilang:en-US, I get an error "Error 2. Unable to access the image."Here's some screenshotsISM /online /get-intl To get installed languagesDISM /image:C: /set-uilang:en-US Changing UI language, getting the errorTried to remove Dutch from lpksetup, but can't because Dutch is the syste

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How to change default system UI Language

Hi Emesiz, I am Paulo and I'd like to help.

Check the link below if you have missed some steps. Here's the full procedure on how to change the System UI language.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/118777-chan...

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See System Default UI Language of Windows 10


Thank you Shawn, very much. I believe the following comments will save at least some readers a large amount of time:

1. If one is trying to change the System Default UI language (and not the displayed language of an individual user), then the relevant tutorial is not the one you cite above, but is instead: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3815-region-language-settings-copy-windows-10-a.html (How to Copy Region and Language Settings to Welcome Screen and New User Accounts in Windows 10)

2. If you're like me, you don't want to really change the default system UI language at all. Your problem is that you have in your hand an upgrade .iso, but the upgrade won't allow you to preserve apps setting and files because the 'edition' of the iso isn't the 'same' edition as your current installed Windows. And logic tells you this can't be the real reason you can't preserve files apps and settings, because OF COURSE the .iso is of a different edition -- that's why you using it at all, to UPGRADE.
The shameful truth is that it is the system default UI language which is likely to be different between the .iso and your installed Windows. None of the other language settings seem to matter, although YMMV. Rather than go through the rather delicate procedure in the tutorial just cited, i found that indeed if I just change the value of the "default" key of this tutorial, changing to the correct, desired, LCID (i.e. the one matching the upgrade .iso), then the command dism /online /get-intl reports the system default UI Language to be immediately changed. So you can proceed with the upgrade, and --miracle of miracles -- you can keep files apps and settings.

When the upgrade completes, it is probably safer to restore the registry value using he control panel Region settings in the tutorial mentioned in the previous paragraph. However you choose to do it, making the default system UI language agree between the current installation and the upgrade media was absolutely critical to keeping my apps settings and files.

 

unable to change the language of UI

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in Windows 10.

To assist you better I would like to know, what was the base language for your previous Operating system?



I would suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

Step 1: Remove the Existing language.

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  Press Windows + X on your keyboard.
  
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  Select Control panel.
  
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  Select language.
  
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  Click on the Option adjacent to the
  Existing language.
  
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  Click on remove under input method.
  

Step 2: Add English Language.

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  Press Windows + X on your keyboard.
  
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  Select Control panel.
  
• 
  Select language.
  
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  Click on Add language.
  
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  Add the English language from the given list.
  

If you want a language pack:

You may refer to the suggestions posted by Andre Da Costa on the following thread.

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Hope this information was helpful.