How to change language in the Windows Recovery Environment

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I have two preferred languages in Settings: English and Swedish. The Windows display language is English.

When you restart Windows 11 by pressing Shift and clicking Restart, Windows boots up to the Windows Recovery Environment, WinRE. Here, different options on how to proceed are shown. This dialog on my PC is in Swedish.

How can I change this dialog to English?

I've executed the Command Prompt commands

bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} locale en-US

I've also set Language for non-Unicode programs in intl.cpi to English. The region settings in Settings->Time & lamguage->Language & regions: Country or region and Regional format are both set to Swedish. I suppose these settings are not used in WinRE because I need them. I may temporarily change them to English to evaluate the result, but I doubt it would solve the problem.

Best Answer

This is from Windows 10 Recovery Environment Language :

After few weeks of trying i finally found solution.

In short - change language in bcdedit / windows / settings / sysprep / regedit and etc. won't work.

You just need to replace your current winre.wim file to the one from Windows that have language that you prefer.

I did it simply, download Windows 10 Pro Eng ISO and extract it. Then mount /sources/install.esd file and it creates install.wim - here you go to /Windows/System32/Recovery and cut the winre.wim file and move it to your system.

Well, it's almost done. Run cmd by admin and use command:

reagentc /setreimage /path C:\windows\system32\recovery

After that one more:

reagentc /enable

Here it is. After that i restart my laptop and go to RE in Safe Mode and it become totally on English.

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