Configuring the Windows multi-language edition
Windows Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Packs permit you to install an English version of Windows, and then install various User Interface Language Packs. These provide a localized user interface (UI) for the operating system.
For example, you can install a Japanese User Interface Language Pack on top of an English version of Windows. You can then switch the Windows UI language between Japanese and English. The MUI permits you to have multiple language versions of Windows on a single computer.
You can use the Windows MIU to change the user interface, for example, menus and dialog boxes, into another language. Up to 33 different languages can be installed on the machine by an administrator, any user with administrative privileges, using the muisetup.exe program.
Changing the user interface language has the effect of displaying menus, dialog boxes and Help files in the specified language.
In general:
- Select any one of the installed user interface languages by opening the Control Panel’s Region and Language dialog box.
- Depending on your OS, navigate to the section where you choose a language for the menus and dialog boxes.
- Navigate to where you can select default user account settings to set the UI language. This is the language that the default user on the local machine, or a domain user that does not have a profile, sees at first log in. This is also the UI language that is applied to system services running on the local machine.
- After changing the UI, go through the steps mentioned in Configuring the regional language setting in English operating systems.