Archive: Windows language


Windows language
How to find if my windows is in french or in english in regkey ??

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[ A-F ] Yeah...riiiight !


unless you want to know the actual language of your windows-version, you can query "HKCU\Control Panel\International\Locale" in your registry. i'm using an english windows, but still my locale in german.


Thx !


HKCU\Control Panel\International\locale is not in my regestry "under win xp home"

but i have sLanguage = FRC maybe someone else can tell me if under win98 or win 2000 the same variable is present ...

THX !


i recommend winguides.com for registry issues. you should find the desired answer there.


There are a few pages in the web archive.

Example 1
Example 2