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How to change the language in Windows 10
If you are like me and you don't know how to operate any software in any other language than English, the same seems to apply to me and Windows. Here is a tip on how to change the language to something that you are more accustomed to. I recently installed Windows 10 and for some reason, I selected the language as Finnish. It may be my native language but I found my self to be lost on how to operate Windows in Finnish, all the words sounded stupid and I had no idea what anything was. So I'm saying Fuck this to Finnish and looked a way to change the language to English. Turns out it's quite simple as you can see below.
Go to Start menu, click settings icon on the left side.
From the settings window select Time & Language.
On the left side menu select Language
You can add other languages by clicking the "Add Language" button. Don't worry about the English already being there in the image. I'm just demonstrating how you can add the language you need.
Select the language you want to install from the menu. In my case, I wanted to install English. Click Next to proceed.
You can change the language features if you want or leave them unchanged as I did and click "Install"
The first language on the list is considered the default language. You can change the default language by clicking on the language you want and then clicking on the up arrow to move it up on the list.
The changes take effect after you restart your computer.
If you want to change your keyboard input language to something else than the default language you just installed go to "Spelling, typing & keyboard settings"
You find yourself in the Typing menu, in there select "Advanced keyboard settings"
In the "Override for the default input method" select the language you want use and you are done.
Now you have completed the changing of the language and only thing to do now is to restart your computer if you haven't done so already.
