What is Windows 11 Home Single Language? What’s the difference between the Windows Home edition and the Windows Home Single Language edition? How to change language in Windows 11/10 Home Single Language edition? This post from MiniTool Partition Wizard will show you all.

Windows 11/10 Home Single Language

Those people who have bought PCs abroad may encounter the Windows 11/10 Home Single Language issue. When they try to change the system language to their mother language, they are told that “your Windows license supports only one display language.” This issue prevents them from changing the system language.

Why do PC manufacturers sell PCs with the Windows 11 Home Single Language edition or Windows 10 Home Single Language edition? 

The fundamental reason is that the license of the Windows Home Single Language edition is cheaper than that of the regular Home edition. In addition, the Single Language edition is usually only offered to OEMs.

Windows 11/10 vs Windows 11/10 Home Single Language

What about Windows 10 vs Windows 10 Home Single Language or Windows 11 vs Windows 11 Home Single Language? Some people may wonder about this question.

The Windows 11/10 Home edition is the same as the Windows 11/10 Home Single Language, except that the Single Language edition doesn’t allow users to change the system language after the Out of Box Experience (they have chosen one language in this process).

Windows 11 Home Single Language
Tips:
Some people may see the Windows 11 Home Single Language or Windows Home Insider Preview Single Language watermark in the right bottom corner of the PC screen. In most cases, the reason for this issue is that they have joined the Microsoft Insider Program. Leaving the insider build can solve the issue.
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How to Solve the Windows 11/10 Home Single Language Issue

You can the following ways to solve the Windows 11/10 Home Single Language issue.

Way 1. Upgrade to the Pro Edition

To solve the Windows 11/10 Home Single Language issue, you need to purchase a Windows 11/10 Pro license and then activate Windows 11/10 using the new license. You can refer to the detailed steps in this post: How to Upgrade Windows 11 Home to Pro – 5 Steps.

Way 2. Use Commands

This way is offered by users of the Super User forum and many people say that it works for them. So, you can also have a try.

For Windows 11 Home Single Language Issue

Step 1: Press the Windows logo key + R to open the Run dialog box. Then, type “cmd” and press Enter to open Command Prompt.

Step 2: Run the command gotten on this page. For example, if you want to change the language to en-US, the command should be:

curl -o %TEMP%\Microsoft-Windows-Client-Language-Pack_x64_en-us.cab "https://filedn.com/lOX1R8Sv7vhpEG9Q77kMbn0/Windows11/LanguagePacks/Microsoft-Windows-Client-Language-Pack_x64_en-us.cab"
dism /online /Add-Package /PackagePath:%TEMP%\Microsoft-Windows-Client-Language-Pack_x64_en-us.cab
reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Language /v InstallLanguage /t REG_SZ /d 0409 /f
reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Language /v Default /t REG_SZ /d 1033 /f
cd
Tips:
You should replace %TEMP% in given commands to the full path to the Temp folder like C:\Users\Linda\AppData\Local\Temp.

For Windows 10 Home Single Language Issue

Tips:
Some people report that this way doesn’t work for Windows 11 PCs.

Step 1: You should first download and install the language pack by adding a language in Settings > Time & Language > Language.

Step 2: Open Command Prompt with Administrator rights. Type dism /online /get-packages and press Enter. Look for Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package as a start for Package Identity. And its State should be Installed. You can see the next 5 characters after ~ to understand which language it is (tr-TR for example).

check installed language package

Step 3: Press Win+R, type “regedit”, and then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open Registry Editor with Administrator rights. Go to \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Language.

Step 4: Check the Language/region ID of the installed language in the Available languages for Windows page. Double-click the Default entry on Registry Editor and then change its Value data to the ID of the installed language. In some cases, you might need to change the InstallLanguage entry as well.

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Linda
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Linda has been working as an editor at MiniTool for 5 years. She is always curious about computer knowledge and learns it crazily. Her articles are simple and easy to understand. Even people who do not understand computer can gain something. By the way, her special focuses are disk management, data recovery and PDF editing.