How can I change Windows Recovery Environment language? PO3-620

CopperSky

Hi,

Is there a safe and easy way to change Windows Recovery Environment language?

Thank you,

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/706563/how-can-i-change-windows-recovery-environment-language-po3-620

If you have set Windows language to English WindowsRE will be in English, if you have WindowsRE on a flash drive that you borrowed or was made on a non-English Windows PC than that WindowsRE will be in a foreign language, make a new USB Recovery disk on another PC that has the language you want and the same Windows version. Insert a 10GB flash drive in the USB2.0 port of that PC and in Windows type Recovery disk. Takes about 40 minutes to create.

CopperSky

Thank you for your answer @Puraw

Maybe I used the wrong name for the thing I want to change. I want to change the language of this environment to English. I don't normally use a flash drive for this, I just press SHIFT when I click the restart button.

I can successfully change the language everywhere I can see except WinRE (if I name it correctly).

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1278329#Comment_1278329

You used the correct name it is WindowsRE or WindowsPE; the Windows recovery OS. Either the original Windows OS installed was in German and later upgraded to a new Windows version in English. Shift + Restart loads WindowsRE from the recovery volume on the boot drive. To change that you have to reinstall Windows (Reset this PC losing your files) but backup the boot drive first to a USB 4TB backup drive. You can also try this (from MS answers):

• In Windows search, type Command Prompt
• Right click on it and Run as administrator
• Type these two commands and hit Enter key after each
  bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US
  bcdedit /set {bootmgr} locale en-US
  
  If this does not work you can try to extract the winre.wim file from an ISO image downloaded from MS but it is complicated:
  https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-recovery-environment-language/b3ca490b-e72f-45c6-aa47-edf334f807d5

CopperSky

I tried these solutions but failed. I guess I'll leave it as is. It is also very possible that I couldn't try the second solution properly. Thanks for your time.