Download English Language Pack For Windows 10 Offline

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Magnhild Mongolo

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Jul 31, 2024, 5:21:15 AM7/31/24

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I want to download Windows 10 and Windows 11 offline language package. Because my PC don't connect to the Internet. But I'm not an OEM or partner of Microsoft, I can't sign in the OEM website and partner website. How to download it?

My Situation: I'm working and developing on a Windows machine but it has no access to Internet. I can go to a Linux machine and download things, copy them on USB Stick and then copy again from stick to the Windows machine.

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@matt2xu actually there is no way to connect the Windows to Internet. I can develop some code under Linux but after a certain point I need to connect to real Hardware. This is only at the Windows machine possible.

@tyoc213 Maybe cargo cacher would help to download all the crates on my Linux machine but isn't there an easier way just to download all (e.g. as zip)? Maybe I will try with cargo cacher just to see how many MBytes all crates together fill on my hdd...

@matklad Great! It works! Seems to be a really cool workflow to use rust in 'offline' situations.
By the way: Personally I think a programming language that insists always on Internet isn't universal enough.
Thanks for help and special thanks to Alex Crichton! I really don't know his motivation to write cargo-vendor but it is exactly what I need.

After more than 10 years the Windows Setup (offline) has not changed. And comparing to other OSes this becomes very obvious. We are all familiar with the Windows Setup. It appear very streamlined.

The UX is still in Windows Vista Design, not following any principles of design language, comparing to OOBE, this is so obvious.

Changing the UI and changing the workflow does not really need to change the tooling like unattend.xml etc. rather bringing more of these what you could automate back to the user and his choice.

If you happen to install the current Kubuntu / Ubuntu then you will notice a huge advantage of the setup process compared to Windows in offline phase:

- you can specify the login / account (Windows OOBE)
- specify the time zone and language (Windows OOBE)
- connect to WiFi (Windows OOBE)
- download updates and DRIVERS from the repository (Windows OOBE has a late feature for that but not consistent)

While setting things up the OS is already installing so you effectively save much of time compared to Windows Setup.

I understand the investments into Windows Setup are minimal since Windows Vista / WS 2008, yet it changed a lot in terms of speed, design and UX and especially technology like WIM, language independency.

- due early internet connection select CU, drivers and firmware updates that could be integrated into the wim before deployment.
- UI scalability / readability (fonts)
- PowerShell 7 + .net (Core) integration if necessary
- Bluetooth device support for keyboard, mouse, and helper for people with disabilities, incl. high contrast schemes

Some ideas from Bronson Magnan, who reports from his view of automation of VM images and setup process as service provider and current challenges and possible improvements with a revamed Windows Setup.

1a. An official PowerShell module/system for generating unattend.xml files would be pretty nice

1b. OR replace (unattend).xml altogether using JSON file and tools to generate it (JSON is also used by Winget and other Microsoft products. If the output was json, I could convert directly from a class composition, instead of producing arrays of strings according to an ancient xml schema to write to disk

2. Panther Setup 2.0: Improvement for virtual machines: setup should be able to look for HyperVNetworkAdapterName registry keyword in the os netadapter advanced properties, and if there is a named defined in the value, to match the IP assignment by that name instead of by MAC address?

This way we can name the adapter during vm configuration using consistent device naming feature. Not having to mess with static mac allocations would be a win. (And go ahead and automatically rename the net adapter to match the registry keyword)

OS image selection
just for demo I am preferring Desktop Experience, as I would like to see the OOBE. Usually I would prefer the Core option without Desktop Experience for most scenarios.

I found out about LanguageTool and I would really like to try it as an offline add-on to Firefox. I downloaded the LanguageTool 3.2 Zip folder and I currently have it on my desktop. I extracted the inner folder, LanguageTool-3.2, and found the languagetool.jar file. I was able to try it out and it works for me.

Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) is a command-line tool used to update offline Windows images. There are two ways to install or remove packages offline with DISM. You can either apply an unattend answer file to the offline image, or you can add or remove the package directly from the command prompt.

Microsoft also Introduced Local Experience Packs (LXPs), which are modern language packs delivered through the Microsoft Store or Microsoft Store for Business. So you no longer have to wait for feature update releases to deliver improved translations to you.

You can create Windows images with LIP by installing the appropriate LXP from the language pack ISOs for full languages (aka SKU languages), Microsoft has not yet retired the legacy language packs (lp.cab), so you will need to continue to add lp.cab for full languages to the OS image using DISM.

Modify an image offline: Start with an image file (either .wim or .ffu format). Mount the file using DISM. It appears as a group of folders. Modify it using DISM, adding drivers, languages, and more. Use DISM to unmount and commit the changes back to the original image file. Apply it to new devices.

After you modify a mounted image, you must unmount it. If you mount your image with the default read/write permissions, you can commit your changes. This makes your modifications a permanent part of the image.

Tauri applications for Windows are either distributed as Microsoft Installers (.msi files) using the WiX Toolset v3 or starting with Tauri v1.3 as setup executables (-setup.exe files) using NSIS. The Tauri CLI bundles your application binary and additional resources. Please note that .msi installers can only be created on Windows as cross-compilation doesn't work yet. Cross-compilation for NSIS installers is experimental and being worked on.

Only the NSIS target supports ARM64 targets, so if you configured tauri to compile all bundle types you may want to change the above command to tauri build --target aarch64-pc-windows-msvc --bundles nsis to only build the NSIS installer.

By default, the Microsoft Installer (.msi) does not work on Windows 7 because it needs to download the WebView2 bootstrapper if not installed (which might fail if TLS 1.2 is not enabled in the operating system). Tauri includes an option to embed the WebView2 bootstrapper (see the Embedding the WebView2 Bootstrapper section below). The NSIS based installer (-setup.exe) also supports the downloadBootstrapper mode on Windows 7.

If your system requires the MSI bundle to be FIPS compliant you can set the TAURI_FIPS_COMPLIANT environment variable to true before running tauri build. In PowerShell you can set it for the current terminal session like this:

The installers by default download the WebView2 bootstrapper and executes it if the runtime is not installed. Alternatively, you can embed the bootstrapper, embed the offline installer, or use a fixed WebView2 runtime version. See the following table for a comparison between these methods:

This is the default setting for building the Windows Installer. It downloads the bootstrapper and runs it. Requires an internet connection but results in a smaller installer size. This is not recommended if you're going to be distributing to Windows 7 via .msi installers.

To embed the WebView2 Bootstrapper, set the webviewInstallMode to offlineInstaller. This increases the installer size by around 127MB, but allows your application to be installed even if an internet connection is not available.

Using the runtime provided by the system is great for security as the webview vulnerability patches are managed by Windows. If you want to control the WebView2 distribution on each of your applications (either to manage the release patches yourself or distribute applications on environments where an internet connection might not be available) Tauri can bundle the runtime files for you.

The .msi Windows Installer package is built using the WiX Toolset v3. Currently, apart from pre-defined configurations, you can change it by using a custom WiX source code (an XML file with a .wxs file extension) or through WiX fragments.

The Windows Installer XML defined by Tauri is configured to work for the common use case of simple webview-based applications (you can find it here). It uses handlebars so the Tauri CLI can brand your installer according to your tauri.conf.json definition. If you need a completely different installer, a custom template file can be configured on tauri.bundle.windows.wix.template.

Note that ComponentGroup, Component, FeatureGroup, Feature and Merge element ids must be referenced on the wix object of tauri.conf.json on the componentGroupRefs, componentRefs, featureGroupRefs, featureRefs and mergeRefs respectively to be included in the installer.

The NSIS Installer's .nsi script defined by Tauri is configured to work for the common use case of simple webview-based applications (you can find it here). It uses handlebars so the Tauri CLI can brand your installer according to your tauri.conf.json definition. If you need a completely different installer, a custom template file can be configured on tauri.bundle.windows.nsis.template on Tauri v1.4 and above.