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Force System UI Language as Display Language in Windows 10

In Windows 10, you can change the display language. For example, if you have a PC with an English version of Windows 10, but your native language is not English, you can convert the operating system into your native language without reinstalling. Today, we will see how to force System UI language as a display language for all users in Windows 10.

Windows 10 Display Language Will Be Changed

The default language of the user interface (system language) is the language used during the installation of Windows 10. When installing and right after installing, Windows 10 uses this language to show messages, buttons and menus. The user can change this language to another one by installing a language pack if the current edition of Windows 10 supports MUI. Tip: See how to find the edition of Windows 10.  It is also possible to have a different display language for each user account.

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You can lock the language options and force all users to use the system UI language as their display language. Here is how.

To force a display language in Windows 10 with Group Policy, do the following.

  1. Open Registry Editor.
  2. Go to the following Registry key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MUI\Settings

    Tip: See how to jump to the desired Registry key with one click.

    If you do not have such a key, then just create it.

  3. Here, create a new 32-bit DWORD value MachineUILock. Note: Even if you are running 64-bit Windows, you still need to use a 32-bit DWORD as the value type.
    Set it to 1 to force the system UI language as a display language in Windows 10.Windows 10 Force System UI Language As Display Language Reg
  4. To make the changes done by the Registry tweak take effect, you need to restart Windows 10.

To save your time, I made ready-to-use Registry files. You can download them here:

Download Registry Files

The undo tweak in included.

Force System UI Language as Display Language with Group Policy

If you are running Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education edition, you can use the Local Group Policy Editor app to configure the options mentioned above with a GUI.

  1. Press Win + R keys together on your keyboard and type:
    gpedit.msc

    Press Enter.Windows 10 run gpedit

  2. Group Policy Editor will open. Go to Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Regional and Language Options. Enable the policy option Force selected system UI language to overwrite the user UI language. Set it to Enabled.Windows 10 Force System UI Language As Display Language

That's it.

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube.

4 thoughts on “Force System UI Language as Display Language in Windows 10”

  1. hi, i need help, my pc’s system language has been changed to turkish, and i don’t understand that language very well. When i go to the settings, it says your windows supports only one system language, i can’t delete turkish from being system language, neither update english to system language. It doesnt give me an option.

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