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I purchased secondhand laptop from Germany and during setup of Windows 11 I kept the original language (German) and also added English language. Then I continued to set up everything in English. Later I decided to remove German because I didn’t need it. But once I had to use advanced boot (blue screen boot) option I found out it is still in German. I checked my registry and settings and it all seems to be set up for English. Do I have to use Windows 11 creation tool? But I don’t want to loose my apps, data, nor drivers. Especially drivers, because it is pain installing them and finding correct ones. Picture of registry keys

Answers for the other “similar” that I tried How to change the language of Windows Automatic Repair interface? question didn’t work. My question is whether there are still more options how to resolve my issue before resolving into Windows reinstall. My question is also regarding whole advanced boot menu being in different language and not just part of it.

Screw you admins.

Dom
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  • “Do I have to use Windows 11 creation tool?” - Why would you reinstall Windows if you can install and change the language of the interface of Windows? Change the locale of the machine – Ramhound Aug 16 '23 at 11:49
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    Does this answer your question perhaps? https://superuser.com/questions/1072904/how-to-change-the-language-of-windows-automatic-repair-interface – Joep van Steen Aug 16 '23 at 12:23
  • I already read those and I also “used bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US” and “bcdedit /set {bootmgr} locale en-US” commands. But it didn’t solve the problem. – Dom Aug 16 '23 at 16:46
  • If proposed answers don't help, add that info to your question and explain what didn't work. – Joep van Steen Aug 18 '23 at 16:20
  • How am I supposed to know why it didn’t work? It just didn’t. – Dom Aug 19 '23 at 18:35
  • By debugging. Mention what you tried and what were the exact results, even if you sum all our attempts up with "it's still in German". Reopening based on that edit will be 100% impossible. Including Edit keyword is not needed BTW, edit history can be checked. – Destroy666 Aug 21 '23 at 12:31
  • Instead of adding "EDIT", you could instead add "Update 1", "Update 2", etc, to indicate the progress of your efforts more clearly. – music2myear Aug 21 '23 at 15:10
  • I already mentioned what I tried. Checking that all language settings are set to English (system language, regional format, location, UEFI BIOS), I even checked those values in registry. I also tried the commands that I already posted above. Basically everything as in the other thread except reinstalling Windows. Which was my question about. Whether there are still some other options left or not. – Dom Aug 24 '23 at 18:33
  • I have whole advanced startup in German. Not only Windows automatic repair option. – Dom Aug 24 '23 at 18:33
  • Music2myear I typed “edit” because there was a notification that I should edit my question and without word “edit” it still got closed. I thought this stuff might be handled by some word sensitive bot. I edited my question only as attempt to preserve it. – Dom Aug 24 '23 at 18:38

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