HOW-TO: How to Russify Windows 7

The number of fans of all sorts of compilations of Windows and similar operating systems in the world billions. After all, since 1995, an incredible number of versions of the "operatsionki." And this is understandable - because this is the only OS where user does not need technical knowledge. Most of them use the OS in a variant in their native language. However, it may happen that you have English for some reason or, worse, a Chinese version, but you want to translate it into Russian. There can be many reasons for this - a laptop with a preinstalled foreign language version from the online store, an operating system for an academic license (they do not provide copies in Russian), and much more.

Let's consider how to Russify Windows 7, which, despite the success of XP and the subsequent failure of Vista, could still gain a deserved popularity. Boot as usual.

It should be noted that if you are the lucky owner of variations of Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise, then changing the interface language is greatly simplified. In these OS there is a simplified mechanism for how to Russify Windows 7. First you will need to get a language pack from the "Windows Update" (in the English version you can find it at Start> All Programs> Windows Update).

Then just select the icon with the globe and clock in the control panel , go to the "Keyboard & Languages" tab, click the "Install / Uninstall languages" button (on the left on the button a small yellow-blue shield) and select the Russian language that appeared in the menu. Do you want to Russify Windows 7 Home Premium or another variation of this system - Professional? Then the procedure is a bit complicated. First you need to know the bit depth of the installed version and the availability of the service pack (for the first or 64 bit version, the language package is provided for its own). To do this, press the Win + Pause Break buttons. The "General" tab opens, where all this information will be visually represented in the opened system properties window.

Well, then download, according to the number, the language pack from the official Microsoft website. This is already 50 percent of the answer to the question of how to Russify Windows 7!

Then rename the file with the cab extension to just lp.cab and put it in the root of the C: \ drive. Next, you need to enter the command line with administrative rights in the system. Press the combination to bring up the menu to start the programs - Win + R, it needs to type cmd.

Caution, before pressing the "OK" button, you have to hold down two keys (Shift and Control). Well, then successively you need to type a few commands. First, DISM / Online / Add-Package / PackagePath:"C:\lp.cab ". The execution time of this command is about 2-3 minutes. After that, we change the "locale" of the current system bcdedit / set locale ru-RU and the next command of this series is bcdboot% WinDir% / l ru-RU.

Completing the procedure for changing the language, you need to make only one language known to the system interface - Russian. Open the registry editor with regedit. In the hive of the HKLM system registry, follow the path / SYSTEM / CurrentControlSet / Control / MUI / UILanguages. Remove using the "Delete" command, without exception, languages other than the native ru_RU. The consequences of Russification in this way is the appearance of the second OS in the download list. To get rid of this sometimes annoying factor, do not be lazy to run the msconfig command and remove the "wrong" operating system from the "Download" menu.

At the end, reboot and enjoy the welcome, as well as the interface in Russian. So we learned how to Russify Windows 7. Attention! When performing these actions, you must scrupulously monitor the number of spaces in the commands being executed, otherwise you can receive error message 87 (the most common one is because of the incorrectly typed DISM / Online / Add-Package / PackagePath: PATH_KEY_LOCKS_PACKET), and also 3. Also On some systems in the command that causes error 87, you do not need to type quotes.

Unfortunately, officially there are no Russification packages for simplified variations of Windows 7 -Basic, and also Starter (providing for the launch of no more than 3 tasks at a time). This is the most stripped-down version of the operating system. But folk craftsmen found a way out of the situation. The program Vistalizator, preferably the most recent version, you need to "show" the standard language pack for the "seven", and then install it into the system and reboot. So, we looked at how to install Russian on Windows 7. For most experienced PC users, this task does not cause any problems.