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The new Edge(release) is displaying only in Chinese
How do I change it to English! All the menus are in Chinese.
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Please note that the default new tab page is actually a website and it has its own language setting. Try to change the language of the page like this:
Click the gear button on the top-right of the page > select the fifth menu item (Advanced) > choose your desired region/language in the drop-down menu. The page should reload with the new setting.
Change the region/language for the Edge default new tab page.
If in case the settings seems to revert by itself you may want to clear the browser cache and cookies.
There is a setting that might also be related to your problem: Settings > Start, home, and new tabs > New tab page > Preload the new tab page for a faster experience
(or URL: edge://settings/startHomeNTP)Default is on, try to turn it off and clear browser cache and cookies.
Note: If you are using InPrivate mode or you cleared cookies when closing Edge, the new tab page cannot save your preference since it use cookies.
Note#2: Technologies which change your IP like VPN, when combining with InPrivate or settings to clear cookies, will probably interfere the new tab page's geolocation detection and preference saving, and thus always shows a different language. Such users, or those who want to change the new tab page URL, may consider installing https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/Microsoft-Edge-Extensions-Home.
Regards,
Ken
I have tried changing the language in Settings and on the start page. It keeps coming back to Chinese. The menus in Edge Settings are in English and US English is selected (I tried just "English" too). The menus on the start page like you showed are in Chinese and every time I try to change the settings to English it reverts to Chinese.
- I found out the cause. It was my VPN. Despite being connected to a US server, when I used my VPN Edge was in Chinese. When I shot off my VPN it went back to English. Weird.
I have tried your suggestion to no success.
My settings already indicate English yet, my Edge appears in Chinese.
- Why do I?
This is on Windows 10
- I live in the UK and I am English. I cannot speak Chinese. My PC is set up with region English UK and keyboard layout is English UK. I have never seen this until I created a new PC account. I opened Microsoft Edge, all was OK. I then created an Amazon seller account. After I logged in, everything changed to simplified Chinese. Although I could translate the page to English, it's clear that everything is in simplified Chinese. I struggle to understand how this could happen. How do I know whether my PC has been compromised (or not)?
Is this a known problem?Maryland_Mayhem Same here for me. The new tab keeps on switching its language to Chinese. This is both frustrating and annoying. Does anyone know how to switch it back to English?
- Hi,
go here: edge://settings/languages
and choose English from the drop down menuEver since last up date 2 or 3 days ago, my home page come up in Chinese. Going to setting does not help, set for English and it does not change. very frustrated
