Windows 10: Upgrade China laptop from single-language Chinese Windows 11 home to English with no...

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

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How to upgrade Windows 8.1 Chinese single language OS to English OS?

Hi,

Currently my Laptop is Windows 8.1 Chinese Single Language OS.

How to upgrade Windows 8.1 Chinese single language OS to English OS?

Regards,

Alvin Wong

 

Convert Chinese Laptop to English

A friend of mine bought a laptop in China (she is on a two year contract there), Everything is in Chinese in Windows 11.

How can the Windows 11 be changed to English. According to the Chinese IT the Windows 11 is a Chinese family package and cannot be converted from Chinese to English. Can Windows 10 English be installed on the laptop and then upgrade it to Windows 11? Help Please.

 

Windows 10 can't display English in chinese laptop bought in china

Hi

How do I add English to a chinese version of windows 10 on a laptop bought in china?

It says it "only allows one language pack" in chinese in the language settings. It must be a home addition.

My laptop was bought in China recently with windows8 chinese version. There was no option to change the language to English then.

I was told that in china, if you want english then you have to pay for 'windows professional 8', so they told me to wait for a windows 10 upgrade first, since its "free" for one year.

I just upgraded the chinese version of windows8 to windows10 though some language guess work during the setup since it was all in chinese, and when it finished, it still doesnt allow me to change the menus to english. I.e. its all still in chinese and says
"only one language pack allowed. I can download some english language packs, but it doesnt allow me to change.

So my question is, do I need to pay for windows 10 professional in order to change the language? And since its "free" for one year for legitimate windows 8 upgrades, how can I use it for free for one year in english rather than chinese.

Or is there an option to select a windows 10 professional option that has multi lingual suoport (I upgraded through the automatic windows update menu, so it automatically upgraded windows 10 home edition = i.e. not through an ISO process. Do I need to do
it through the ISO installatin process?

Hope you can explain this, coz theres many people out there who are stumped by this, not only me.