You might have to play around with the different options because sometimes one keyboard doesn’t work properly. Depending on the physical keyboard you are using, choose the correct keyboard option. Now scroll down to the language you want to add and expand the keyboard section. To add a language, go ahead and click on the Add button. You’ll see the current default input language and installed services. Now click on the Keyboards and Languages tab and then click on Change keyboards. You can also add additional input methods for the language.įor Windows Vista and Windows 7, open the Control Panel and click on Region and Language. You can click on Options to download the language pack for the newly installed language, which will allow you to change the Windows display language. You might also get some messages from Windows as it installs any necessary files for the language. You should now see it as an installed language. Pick the language and then click on the Add button at the bottom. Here you get a nice preview of a few characters for each language. That's how I got my computer out of Hindi, and back to English:Īlso, Lions99's video is very good and covers a lot of ground.Windows 8 and 10 have a much better interface for browsing the languages as compared to Windows 7 and earlier. So, follow the link below to the support document, and then use the illustrations to navigate in your Japanese interface. If you keep following the steps, you will probably be able to install an English language pack and change the interface language to English. Then, you can find Clock, Language, and Region by looking for the icon that has the world/clock illustration. So, click on the fifth item from the bottom, and it will probably open Control Panel. But if you look at the illustrations in "Changing Languages in Windows 8", you'll notice that Control Panel is the fifth item from the bottom. The only thing is, the menu you open won't be in English, so it might be hard to find the Control Panel. For example, "move the mouse pointer to the lower left corner of the screen, right-click, and select Control Panel from the menu," which you can still do on a Japanese interface. The document below will show you things such as how to open the Control Panel.
You can navigate in a language that you don't understancd at all by following the steps and clicking in the right spots. I learned one thing quickly: Most features, such as Control Panel and Charms, are in the same place in every language, and often have the same icons. One day, I was fooling around in Windows 8, and I accidentally changed the interface to Hindi! The good news is that changing languages in Window 8 is easy. I went through something similar not too long ago.
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