Windows in chinese, need english

[Darrin]

I just received my x98 3g from Gearbest and I have watched the tutorial for changing from chinese to English with win 8.1 .  However the windows menu’s are still in chinese since it’s windows 10.  I installed a Firefox and those menu’s are English.  Also my volume down button is defective, it doesn’t click or decrease the volume, only volume up does.  This wouldn’t be a big deal but I won’t be able to re-install anything if I can’t get the tablet in maintenance mode.  Waiting for Gearbest to get back to me but it’s been 5 days now.

How can I get Windows 10 English?  If I reinstall, is there a way to grab my product key beforehand?

Android side is fine, easy to set Region for Canada.

 

 

 

 

[Darrin]

Really, everyone is ok with chinese menu’s and system messages?  I’m sure someone has somehow managed to get this tablet to english and a region of north America.  If I wanted chinese, I’d order takeout.  Not on my tablet please….

 

[Joe]

Not sure if this will work on your tablet.  But I did it on the V820W CH running Win10.  When you go to control panel and go to “Add a language” settings.  Now you must already have the English installed and set as Enabled.  On the left side, click on “Change date, time, or number formats”.  Go to the “Administrative” tab.  Under “Welcome screen and new user accounts” click on the button that says “Copy Settings”.

The Current User should all say English, but the Welcome Screen and New user accounts will probably say Chinese.  At the very bottom there are 2 checkboxes.  Check those boxes for copying current settings to Welcome screen and system accounts and to New user accounts.  Now click OK and it will tell you you need to reboot.  After rebooting it should be mostly in English.  I have not fully gone through if everything is English or not, but it worked on some things.

 

[Darrin]

Thanks Joe, yes I did try that but no difference.

In fact Current user is still in chinese, so copying the settings page itself is in chinese.  I’ve tried adding English UK, English Canada, setting them as default.  rebooting, going back in to region settings, everything is still chinese.  The odd thing is if I install firefox or ccleaner, those menu’s are in english.  Any native windows apps like skype or windows menus like control panel are all in Chinese.  I have the region set to Canada (though it is in chinese)  I used google translate to find the right symbols.   There doesn’t seem a way to revert back to Windows 8 either.

 

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