The number of fans of various compilations of Windows and similar operating systems in the world is billions. Indeed, since 1995 an incredible number of versions of the “OS” have been released. And this is understandable - after all, this is the only OS where the user does not need technical knowledge. Most of them use the OS in their native language version. However, it may happen that you have, for some reason, the English version, or, even worse, the Chinese version, and you want to translate it into Russian. There can be many reasons for this - a laptop with a preinstalled foreign language version was purchased from the online store, an operating system was installed under an academic license (they do not provide copies in Russian), and much more.
Let's look at how to Russify Windows 7, which, despite the success of XP and the subsequent failure of Vista, still managed to gain its well-deserved popularity. Boot normally.
It should be noted that if you are a happy owner of variations of Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise, then changing the interface language is greatly simplified. In these OSs, a simplified mechanism is provided for how to Russify Windows 7. First you will need to get a language pack from the Windows Update (in the English version it can be found at Start> All Programs> Windows Update).
Then just select the globe and clock icon in the control panel , go to the “Keyboard & Languages” tab, click on the “Install / Uninstall languages” button (a small yellow-blue shield on the left of the button) and select the Russian language that appears in the menu. Do you want to Russify Windows 7 Home Premium or another variation of this system - Professional? Then the procedure is a little complicated. First, you need to find out the bit depth of the installed version and the availability of the service pack (for the first or version 64 bits, a language pack is provided for its own). To do this, click the Win + Pause Break buttons in sequence. The General tab will open, where all this information will be visually presented in the opened window of system properties.
Well, then download, according to bit depth, a language pack from the official Microsoft website. This is already 50 percent of the answer to the question of how to Russify Windows 7!
Then rename the file with the extension cab to just lp.cab and put it in the root of the C: \ drive. Next, you need to go to the command line with administrative rights in the system. We press the combination to call the menu to start the program - Win + R, in it you need to type cmd.
Attention, before clicking the “OK” button, you should hold down two keys (shift and control). Well, then you need to type several teams in sequence. Firstly, DISM / Online / Add-Package /PackagePath:--------C:\lp.cab ”. The execution time of this command is about 2-3 minutes. After that, we change the "locale" of the current bcdedit / set locale ru-RU system and the next command in this series is bcdboot% WinDir% / l ru-RU.
When completing the language change procedure, only one language should be known for the system interface - Russian. Open the registry editor with the regedit command. In the HKLM registry hive, follow the path / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / MUI / UILanguages. Using the “Delete” command, we remove all languages without exception, besides the native ru_RU. The consequences of Russification in this way is the appearance of the second OS in the boot list. To get rid of this sometimes annoying factor in advance, do not be too lazy to run the msconfig command and remove the "wrong" OS in the "Download" menu.
At the end, reboot and enjoy the greeting, as well as the interface in Russian. So we learned how to Russify Windows 7. Attention! When performing these actions, it is necessary to carefully monitor the number of spaces in the commands that are executed, otherwise you can get an error message of 87 (the most common one occurs due to an incorrectly typed DISM / Online / Add-Package / PackagePath command: PATH_K_YAZYKOVYU_ PACKAGE), as well as 3. Also on some systems, the command that causes error 87 does not need to type quotes.
Unfortunately, officially there are no Russification packages for simplified variations of Windows 7 –Basic, as well as Starter (providing for the launch of no more than 3 tasks at a time). These are the most truncated versions of operating systems. But craftsmen found a way out of the situation. The program Vistalizator, preferably the latest version, you need to "show" the standard language package for the "seven", and then install it on the system and reboot. So, we looked at how to install the Russian language on Windows 7. For most experienced PC users, this task is not difficult.