We are having a problem at work with program languages. We are situated in Finland, so the regional settings are set to Finland, and finnish standards. This seems to make some programs automatically have their UIs in finnish, even though the OS is in english. Is there a way to force all programs to use english as their UI language? Thanks!

If those programs are using the Localization-API from windows and they supports more than one language: yes, just switch to English. If only one language is supported ( for instance finnish ): no. Just read the documentation and search for provided language-packs to learn more about those applications.

Kimmi

Well, one of the problematic applications is a driver for a bluetooth dongle. I think it is multilingual since there were no separate downloads for specific languages. How and where do I switch to english, like you said?

No, you can't force apps to use a particular language unless you're willing to change your locale settings which you understandably don't want to do.

You need to complain to whoever wrote the app and tell them you want to be able to select the language indepently of the OS/user language.

I hope I haven't misunderstood, but setting Thread.CurrentUICulture explicitly is one way in .NET applications. There are others too.

Ah, ignore me. I misunderstood, they are third party applications. :)

Quote: Original post by GuyWithBeard
Well, one of the problematic applications is a driver for a bluetooth dongle. I think it is multilingual since there were no separate downloads for specific languages. How and where do I switch to english, like you said?

You can switch the whole windows to a different language, that's all you can do. You cannot force a single application to a different language. If the application isn't touched by this the only way is contacting the author like Anon Mike said before.

Kimmi