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I just got my Surface and as I boot it up, I see some languages but those are all Scandinavian (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish). I can select the app language to English but the rest stays in Swedish.
How can I reset and reboot the device so it's all in English?
Can it be done if I install Windows 10 (preview)?
Konrad Viltersten
Posted 2015-01-27T20:30:55.590
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You can change the language in windows 8 by:
Reference from Microsoft where they also talk about how to install alternate languages.
This should be identical in result to the old way it was done in windows 7 but I'll include a reference to it as well. This would be accomplished in Desktop mode (Control Panel -> Language and Region -> Administrative -> Change System Locale.
Foosh
Posted 2015-01-27T20:30:55.590
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I'm not entirely convinced you're right. I've set English as primary language but I can still see some Swedish in tiles, for instance. Also, the whole installation procedure, sync with the pend etc. was done in Swedish. I want to go all-English (except for the input language and Swedish keyboard). I.e. I wish the core to be English and put some Swedish on top, not the other way around. Is that doable? – Konrad Viltersten – 2015-01-28T06:22:24.797
Once you get your language set the way you want it, you could refresh the system to force windows to reinstall those tiles. If you don't want the nuclear option, you can check here and reset the tiles to default which should trigger English and not Swedish.
– Foosh – 2015-01-28T19:38:30.337
You would have the same problem since you would have to use the same language version of Windows 10 so that isn't really a solution – Ramhound – 2015-01-27T20:50:53.567