Windows 10: Preferred Language options are not working

As the subject reads, something is wrong with my computers language startup options, I could not seem to find any posts on any forums encountering the exact same problem.

I want my preferred default language to be English (United Kingdom). If I look at my language options, it will tell me English is my default language, but every time I start up windows it picks something other than English.

It started a few months ago when a "crucial update" prompt wreaked chaos on my computer, took me months just to finally stop the "windows push notifications" Ram glut.

Before the update I had just English and Japanese on my computer (I had manually removed American as an option). After the 'crucial update' it added American back in and started windows using American when I started up windows, I set UK as default, removed American, it boots up with Japanese, I tried removing Japanese and its reverted back to American despite there being no option to swap to American in my preferred language options...

I'm pretty sure I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling English from my language options, that hasn't helped.

I know I can cycle through languages on my computer with Windows key + space key, I have visited the language settings using the language display on the start bar and tried tinkering with the settings many times in order to try and fix this issue on my own but I legit cannot seem to figure out why it will not boot up with English by default even though its telling me English IS my default.

Has anyone seen this problem before or possibly know of any hard solutions (do I need to do something as admin or to boot in safe mode?), it seems like I need something that can clean jump start the default language options for windows, cos something is certainly fragged, the problem is literally confined to just the UK language, if I set any other language as a preferred language it will use the other language upon startup no problems, but if I try to set English as default it wont work.

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languages preferred

Hello,

Assuming you want to use English (United States) as your preferred language, try these steps

1. Right click Start Button or press Windows + X keys and select Windows PowerShell (Admin).

2. In the administrative Windows PowerShell window, type these commands one-by-one and press Enter key after each:

Get-WinUserLanguageList

This will display list of installed languages on your machine. Note the LanguageTag for your preferred language.

$1=New-WinUserLanguageList <LanguageTag>

Replace <LanguageTag> for your preferred language. For example, if your preferred language is English (United States), then you can use $1=New-WinUserLanguageList en-US.

Set-WinUserLanguageList $1

After this, when opted, type Y to confirm setting preferred language. Close Windows PowerShell and you're done.

Hope this helps!

 

Windows 10 Language preference

Hi AS Balticom,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community Forums.

I appreciate your efforts to work on this issue.

I can understand the situation must be difficult for you when the Language preference settings doesn't work as it should.

Please answer these questions to get more clarity on this issue:

1. Are you aware of any changes made to the PC prior to this issue?
   
2. Which build version is installed on the computer? Press Windows key + R, type 'winver' and press enter to know this information.
   
3. Is the issue specific to the UK language?
   

Meanwhile, suggest you to follow these methods and check if that works for you.

Method 1: Suggest you to run the LPK setup and remove the language pack.

1. Press WIndows key + R to get the run window.
   
2. Type ‘LPKSETUP’ and press enter.
   
3. Click ‘Uninstall display languages.
   
4. Choose the language then click ‘Next’.
   

Once this is done, restart the computer and check if that helps.

Method 2: Further, suggest you to open the Registry Editor and remove the specific registry key and restart the PC to see if that makes any difference.

Keyboard Identifiers and Input Method Editors for Windows

Registry disclaimer: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that
you follow these steps carefully. For added protection,
back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.

Additional Information.

Keep your PC up to date as it keeps your device running smoothly and secure.

Let us know the result of the steps performed so that we can help you further.

Awaiting your reply.

Regards,

Srimadhwa B

Microsoft Community-Moderator

 

my language prefrence is japanese

Hi Mikhail,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft community forum.

Could you please help me with the below information:

1. How many language packs are installed in the computer?
   
2. Do you mean language preference in a particular application or the entire system?
   

I suggest you to follow the steps mentioned below:

Steps:

1. Click on the Settings icon from the start menu.
   
2. Tap on Time and language > Region and language.
   
3. Click a particular language for example English.
   
4. You will see three options underneath: “Set as default”, “Options”, “Remove”.
   
5. Click on Set as default and make English as your default language.
   

For more information, you can check Add
and switch input and display language preferences in Windows 10.


Hope it helps.

Let us know if you got the help you needed by clicking ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.

Roohi Taj S

Microsoft Community - Moderator