Russification of Windows 7 Professional

    Finally, they got around to installing and watching Windows 7. Since the university is connected to the MSDN Academic Alliance program, I decided not to piracy, but to honestly install the program provided under Windows 7 Professional. With Russian localization, it is not available, therefore, set the English. In addition, I downloaded the Language Pack with all available languages.

    It’s more familiar to see the native Russian interface, so I already started rubbing my hands and looking for how to install the downloaded Language Pack. But then a problem arose ... you can only put it on Ultimate or Enterprise.


    For Ultimate and Enterprise, this is done in a few clicks: Start Menu -> Control Panel , select Clock, Language and Region .

    Contol Panel options

    Click Change display language , and go to the Keyboards and Languages tab .

    Install / Uninstall

    And here on this tab should be the Install / Uninstall Languages button . But she is not. Climbing on the help found that this option is available only for Ultimate and Enterprise.

    There was no desire to download another assembly, besides, I already had quite legal Windows (albeit with limited capabilities). Soon a way out of the situation was found. Russification will require Language Pack for Windows 7.

    We start cmd with administrator rights and execute < path_to_lp_dir > - the path to the directory where the language files are located. For example, D: \ languagepack \ ru-RU. Inside this directory should be lp.cab. Next, run regedit and open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / MUI / UILanguages . Remove en-US and restart the system. Voila! Now Windows will welcome us in its native language) I can advise you to read about DISM , BCDEdit and BCDBoot P.S.

    DISM /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:<path_to_lp_dir>
    bcdedit /set {current} locale ru-RU
    bcdboot %WinDir% /l ru-RU










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