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windows 11 widget language issue
- Aug 10, 2021Just found a solution: Change windows display language and logoff then login, you'll find Widgets in desired language. Note: I had Widgets in Arabic, tried to change language in website to United States (English) but the language only changed for website (which is opened in Edge) then had this thought: Wait, how would changing website language changes an app language. So i changed Region to United States and Tada: Widgets became in English.
Hello Nikhil_Gupta,
See if this guide helps you:
https://www.kapilarya.com/how-to-change-language-for-widgets-on-windows-11
Let me know if this helps!
- KokoKrunch_009May 09, 2022Copper Contributor
My win 11 change to thai language after the update. Help!!! i can't read thai language and i don't know how to change it back to english KapilArya
- RMI0307Oct 30, 2021Copper Contributor
Thanks this works but this is really not intuitive. This is typically the type of things that frustrates users uselessly: believe me, I spent 20 minutes swearing at my PC before finding your article. Please relay this to the Product team: with all the data already in your possession (language preference is collected with the Microsoft account....), why make it so difficult for the user and get them angry?
- KapilAryaOct 30, 2021MVPI highly recommend you to drop a feedback on this to Windows team, via Feedback hub app.
- ovancantfortOct 07, 2021Brass ContributorNo, it doesn't. No effect whatsoever on the widget page
- cpsharpOct 07, 2021Copper Contributor
ovancantfort I concur. I just installed the official build of Windows 11, and the widgets language setting is not changed despite all above mentioned language settings.
- ovancantfortOct 08, 2021Brass ContributorAfter some more testing, my educated guess is the language settings of the Widgets work as follow:
- you can only get a country-language combination that exists on MSN website. So, for Belgium, I can only get BE-NL (Dutch) or BE-FR (French). English language for example is not possible;
- Country is given by Windows region settings.
- Language is given by Windows display language settings. In my case, this is english. As BE-EN does not exist in MSN, Widgets default to BE-NL.
The crazy thing is that the store language has the same limitations, but uses the first preferred language and not the display language, as explicitly mentioned in the settings. By setting first preferred language to French, I got Belgian store in French language, but the Widgets does not use that.
As I vastly prefer to keep the UI in English, I disabled Widgets for the moment.
Really looks like this feature was rushed...
- Nikhil_GuptaAug 02, 2021Brass ContributorThanks for the reply,
But I did try that already it just changes the lang of https://www.msn.com/en-us/feed/personalize not the widgets at the taskbar.- KapilAryaAug 02, 2021MVPIn that case, I suggest you to drop a feedback for this. Hopefully, we can see a dedicated option in upcoming builds, if the feedback worked.