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Windows 10 start screen show wrong language
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Anonymous
Hi, today I was surprised and a bit staggered when my start screen was showing up in Chinese! I have English active on my computer. Logging in, and see language is still set to English, all looking normal. Event viewer though seem a bit concerned about time, check these three:
The system time has changed to 2024-02-01T19:37:07.278821400Z from 2024-02-01T19:37:07.278147400Z.
Change Reason: An application or system component changed the time.
Process: '\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\svchost.exe' (PID 14068).
The time zone information was refreshed with exit reason 0. Current time zone bias is -60.
I have a screenshot of the start screen and made a dump-file of the events during startup.
Also, out of curiosity (after realizing its probably a bug not a virus) I clicked the link in start screens "Like what you see" -section, and the following link opened up:
As you can see, the language is set to "zh-tw", which turns out to be "Chinese (Taiwan)".
What on earth has happened? Is it a classical leap-year bug in windows? Or did someone hack my start screen? :-)
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Anonymous
2024-02-04T22:35:36+00:00 Hi John,
thank you again, but now it fixed itself since windows switched to a new image, where the text once again are in english. Since I believe its a minor bug in windows and nothing more (like a virus, trojan or hijacking) I won't uninstall anything.Thanx again!
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John DeV 164.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor2024-02-02T22:55:21+00:00 Please try to return to the login screen
While holding the Left Shift key, click the Power icon at the bottom right > Restart
This will bring you to Windows Recovery Environment
Select Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Uninstall Updates
Uninstall latest quality update
If this doesn't work, Select Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > System Restore
Select the restore point at an earlier date where everything is still working.
Click Next then Finish
Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.
Kind regards,
John DeV
Independent Advisor
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Anonymous
2024-02-02T18:05:38+00:00 Thanx for the tip, I tested it, but it's still in Chinese. Last time it worked was the day before, last of january.
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John DeV 164.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2024-02-01T23:35:11+00:00 Hi, good day! I'm John Dev a Windows user like you and I'll be happy to assist you today. I know this has been difficult for you, Rest assured, I'm going to do my best to help you.
When was the last time it worked properly?
Please check and try DaveM121's solution in the older thread below if it helps.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...
Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.
Kind regards,
John DeV
Independent Advisor