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Note To add a language to your personal PC, go to Settings Time & Language Language, and choose a language to install. You can add languages and regional support to Windows 10 (except for Windows 10 Home Single Language and Windows 10 Home Country Specific editions), and Windows Server. Windows installations start with at least one language pack and its language components. You can add:.: Localization packages for Windows, delivered as a.cab file, for example, Microsoft-Windows-Client-Language-Packx64es-es.cab. Includes UI elements like text for dialog boxes, menu items, and help files.: Partially-localized language pack. Requires a base language pack. In Windows 10, version 1809, LIPs are delivered as Local Experience Packs (LXPs).appx files, for example, LanguageExperiencePack.am-et.neutral.appx.
For previous versions of Windows 10, LIPs are delivered as.cab files, for example, C: Languages es-ES lp.cab.: Features include language basics (like spell checking), fonts, optical character recognition, handwriting, text-to-speech, and speech recognition. You can save disk space by choosing not to include some language components in your image.
While this reduction in image size can be helpful when creating images for lower-cost devices with small storage, it does lead to an incomplete language experience. Delivered as.cab files, for example, Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-fr-fr-Package.: UI text for the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). Delivered as.cab files. Example: lp.cab, WinPE-Rejuvfr-fr.cab, and more. Get language resources: Language Pack ISO and Feature on Demand ISO.
OEMs and System Builders with Microsoft Software License Terms can download the Language Pack ISO and Feature on Demand ISO from the or the. For Windows 10, version 1809, LIP.appx files and their associated license files are in the LocalExperiencePack folder on the Language Pack ISO.
For previous versions of Windows, Language Interface Packs are available as a separate download. WinRE language packs are distributed on the Language Pack ISO. Don't use the WinPE language packs that ship with the ADK. IT Professionals can download language packs from the. After Windows is installed, users can download and install more languages by selecting Settings Time & language Language Add a language. Notes:. Language components must match the version of Windows.
For example, you can't add a Windows 10, version 1809 language pack to Windows 10, version 1803. Windows Server: Full language packs are not interchangeable with Windows 10, but some LIPs are. For example, you can add Windows 10, version 1809 LIPs to Windows Server 2019. Considerations. Install languages, then updates and apps.
If you're adding languages to an image that already contains apps or updates (for example, servicing stack updates (SSU) or cumulative updates (CU), reinstall the apps and updates. Size and performance. You can install multiple languages and components onto the same Windows image.
Having too many affects disk space, and can affect performance, especially while updating and servicing Windows. Some languages require more hard-disk space than others.
When creating Windows images, you can remove English language components when deploying to non-English regions to save space. You'll need to uninstall them in the reverse order from how you add them.
After the Out-Of-Box-Experience (OOBE) is complete, the default language cannot be removed. The default UI language is selected either during the Out-Of-Box-Experience (OOBE), or can be preselected in the image using DISM or an unattended answer file. Some time after OOBE, any preinstalled languages that haven't been used are removed automatically. The language-pack removal task does not remove LIPs. Cross-language upgrades are not supported. This means that during upgrades or migrations, if you upgrade or migrate an operating system that has multiple language packs installed, you can upgrade or migrate to the system default UI language only.
For example, if English is the default language, you can upgrade or migrate only to English. Add and remove language packs, LIPs, and features on demand We'll install the French language, and then add a LIP language (Luxembourgish) that uses French for its base language. To save space, you can remove English language components when deploying to non-English regions by components in the reverse order from how you add them. Prepare to modify your images: Installation methods. Offline: Modify an image (install.wim) that you plan to deploy using Windows PE or Windows Setup: Mount the Windows image: md C: mount windows Dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:install.wim /Index:1 /MountDir:'C: mount windows'.
Online: Modify a running Windows installation (for example, in ) You can install languages and LIPs by opening the packages from the Language Pack ISO and Feature on Demand ISO and following the instructions to complete the installation. You can use the Settings Time & Language to modify the settings or download languages from Windows Update. To run these same updates using a script, use the instructions in this topic, replacing /Image:'C: mount windows' with /Online. To update the recovery environment, see. Add and remove language packs, LIPs (LXPs), and Features on Demand Preinstall languages by adding the language packs and their related Features on Demand for all preinstalled languages, including the base languages if you're adding a LIP language. Mount the Language Pack ISO and the Features on Demand ISO with File Explorer.
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This will assign them drive letters. Add a language pack: Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Add-Package /PackagePath='D: x64 langpacks Microsoft-Windows-Client-Language-Packx64fr-fr.cab' Where D: is the Language Pack ISO. Verify that it's in the image: Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Get-Packages.
Add LIP languages. Important You cannot remove a language pack from an offline Windows image if there are pending online actions. The Windows image should be a recently installed and captured image.
This will guarantee that the Windows image does not have any pending online actions that require a reboot. Get a list of packages and features installed in your image: Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Get-Packages Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Get-Capabilities Remove languages,.cab-based LIPs, and Features On Demand: Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Remove-Package /PackageName: /PackageName. Remove LIPs added through LXPs: Dism /remove-provisionedappxpackage /packagename:Microsoft.LanguageExperiencePackneutral8wekyb3d8bbwe Verify that they're no longer in your image: Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Get-Packages Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Get-Capabilities.
Change your default language, locale, and other international settings:. For offline images, you can only specify language packs and.cab-based LIPs, not languages delivered as.appx-based LXPs. If you install a LIP by using a.cab file and specify it as the default system UI language, the LIP language will be set as the default UI language (or system locale) and the parent language will be set as the default system UI language (or install language). Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Set-AllIntl:fr-fr See which language settings are available: Dism /Image:'C: mount windows' /Get-Intl. For online images, use Control Panel, or the: Get-WinSystemLocale and Set-WinSystemLocale.
This works with languages delivered as LXPs. For more options, see. Add languages to the recovery environment (Windows RE) We recommend adding languages to for any language you add to Windows.
Not all languages or LIPs have localized recovery images. Use languages from the Language Pack ISO, not from the Windows 10 ADK, to localize WinRE. Note Known issue: Windows RE included with Windows 10 October 2018 Update Thai language image (en-US base language + th-th language pack) shipped with an issue in which an end user will only see UI components (or English) without Thai language text in the Windows Recovery Environment, the text displayed during recovery (Push-button reset), and/or certain screens during the reboot process of feature updates. To fix this issue pre-install the 2018.11D Quality Update. Mount the recovery image.
Offline: the recovery image is inside the Windows image: md C: mount winre Dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:'C: mount windows Windows System32 Recovery winre.wim' /index:1 /MountDir:'C: mount winre'. Online: md C: mount winre Dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:'C: Windows System32 Recovery winre.wim' /index:1 /MountDir:'C: mount winre' Note, Windows RE is inside the Windows image until the Out of Box Experience, after which it is moved to a separate recovery partition.