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Have you ever had problems with running applications written in more complex languages which use special character sets like Chines, Arabic, Russian or Hebrew? If you have, then you should read this article about Unicode and changing the language used for non-Unicode programs. If this sounds like gibberish to you, don’t worry - read on and you will understand what Unicode is, how it works and how to make Windows 7 correctly display programs which use non-Unicode character sets.

While working with the applications included in the Windows Live Essentials package, I discovered that there are no options to change the display language in their configuration menus. That’s when I started to ask myself: how can this be achieved without having to uninstall the applications and reinstall them in a different language? To my surprise, making this change is actually not that hard - you simply need to search for the appropriate configuration options in a rather unexpected place: the Windows 7 Control Panel and make a few clicks. This tutorial will explain how this works.

If you have a computer used by many people, you might want to setup the same display and keyboard input languages plus format and location settings to all user accounts. If you have to do this manually for more than one user account, it already is a lengthy process. Fortunately, Windows 7 offers a simple way for you to configure all these settings on your main user account and have them copied to other user accounts or all the accounts about to get created on your computer. This tutorial will show how.

It is time to continue our series on working with display languages by showing how to remove a display language installed using the Vistalizator tool. As you will see in this tutorial, the procedure is not very complicated. To learn all the required steps, click to read more.

If you have installed a new display language and you no longer need to use it, you can save some disk space by removing it completely from your computer. This tutorial will explain in detail the procedure you need to follow for doing so.

In a previous article, we covered how to Install and Change to a New Display Language in Windows 7 Home and Professional using the only method provided by Microsoft. Even if that solution works without problems, it is limited because it supports a small number of display languages and it is also a bit complicated to get things done. Fortunately there is an alternative which allows you to install any display language. However, it involves using a special tool to hack your Windows 7, called Vistalizator. This tutorial will show how to use this tool to install any display language you want.

Recently, we published a tutorial on how to Install and Change to a New Display Language in Windows 7 Ultimate & Enterprise. However, Windows Ultimate is not widely used when it comes to home users. At that time, we promised to show in an upcoming tutorial how to install and change to a new display language when using Windows Home and Professional editions. It is time to show how.