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How To Change The Default Language For Windows 7 Logon Screen

First of all, if you run a Windows 7 version that doesn’t support multi-language you won’t be able to use the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) functionality to change the default language for Windows 7 welcome screen. Unfortunately, MUIs are only available in Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise edition.

Basically, you are able to change that only when the Keyboards and Languages tab in Region and Language setting looks like below.

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To change the default language on welcome screen

Go to Administrative tab in Region and Language window, which can be launched from Control Panel, and click on Copy settings button.

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You will see what the current language settings on Current user, Welcome screen, and New user account.

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To make the default language setting on Welcome screen the same as your current user account, simply check the option “Welcome screen and system accounts” at the bottom.

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Click OK to save the setting, and reboot the computer for the change to take effect.

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  • http://www.bigfoot.com/~d.u.thibault Daniel U. Thibault

    If you have an “inferior” version of Windows 7, such as Home Premium, MUI exists, it just can’t be changed through the interface. What are the registry keys required to effect this change manually?

    • exxon

      For those who can’t change it this way because of thier Windows version:

      1. Go to Start > Run > type in: ‘regedit’,- without quotation marks, and press Enter.

      2. In the Registry Editor window navigate to the following entry: HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTKeyboard LayoutPreload

      You May have several entries there, 1 stands for default language, 2 for next one and so on. Change the value of 1 to whatever you need (but don’t forget to edit others, so you can shift+tab).

      The vaules you are looking for are probably the ones of your profile, you can find what they are here:
      HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTKeyboard LayoutPreload

      Or just use the provided table:

      Language Name……Language ID
      English (default)..0409
      French………….040c
      Spanish…………0c0a
      Italian…………0410
      Swedish…………041D
      Dutch…………..0413
      Brazilian……….0416
      Finnish…………040b
      Norwegian……….0414
      Danish………….0406
      Hungarian……….040e
      Polish………….0415
      Russian…………0419
      Czech…………..0405
      Greek…………..0408
      Portuguese………0816
      Turkish…………041f
      Japanese………..0411
      Korean………….0412
      German………….0407
      Chinese (Simplified)…0804
      Chinese (Traditional)..0404
      Arabic………….0401
      Hebrew………….040d

      3. Restart your system, voila your logon language has changed.

      4. ???

      5. Profit!

      • khalili Ahmad

        I have a problem when I am changed my logon screen and saveing the Imageres.dlll file so it gives error that you dont have permassion get the permission from trusted installer and I am the Administartor but I cant some one help
        PLEASEeeeeeeeeee

  • Ivan

    Thank you much, bro!

  • PH

    Great. It works !

  • rg

    It relly helped…thx a ton

  • http://www.l2hellraiser.net84.net/ Christos

    “To change the default language on welcome screen”

    Thank you so much, that helped me completely! I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64x. :D

  • Dave

    Thank you!!!! I have been asking how to do this for 4 months!!!

  • Abdullah

    thanks a lot :)

  • Alexander

    thanks dude ….
    ive been searching for it from log time

  • domi1k

    Thanks a lot!

  • Jaclyn

    Awesome, thanks a ton! Solved my problem.

  • Riyazinbox

    thanks 

  • Alex

    thanks

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    Gotcha! I been able to research this for a whole day and now found yah :) Thanks a lot.

  • Rose

    Excellent tip. I was looking for this. Now I feel better. whew