Windows 10: I an buying a new laptop here in China but it has the Windows 11 Chinese Home version. Is...

I m buying a new laptop here in China but it has the Windows 11 Chinese Home version. Is it possible to perchase an English version and over ride the Chinese?

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How can I buy a laptop in China with Windows 10 English

I'm a foreigner living in Shanghai. I have done lot of research on buying a windows laptop in China (Dell, Lenovo or MS - buying from an online site) but every notebook I've seen comes pre-installed with Windows 10 PRC Chinese. Why is it so difficult,
time consuming and almost-impossible for me to get a laptop in China with Windows 10 in English? Or should foreigners in China should not buy Windows-based laptops? Shouldn't there be an option somewhere to buy with English version or Chinese version?

 

Laptop bought in China having chinese language and not able change the language

If you bought the laptop in China, it was installed with the localized Chinese version of Windows. If you want the English version of Windows, you have to buy that version of Windows and install it (via clean install) on your laptop.

 

Upgrade China laptop from single-language Chinese Windows 11 home to English (with no residual Chinese, eg for system messages, etc)

I live in China and plan to buy a new laptop computer. It will have Windows 11 home, single-language (chinese). What is the best way to change this so that I just have English?

I believe a partial solution would be to do an on-line upgrade. Very likely this will have to be from a Chinese microsoft site to Windows 11 Pro chinese version (or is it possible to directly upgrade to a different language version of Windows?) and then I could change the language display to English. However, I also believe that this would not be a complete solution. I did something very similar to this about 10 years ago and while most of the language was in English there were still a lot of system and control panel messages that were in Chinese.

Any informed advice would be welcome.