Windows Login Screen Language
Vinay Pettyjohn
Trying to put in a registry key within Computer\HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload will only work until next login without rebooting. When rebooting, the keyboard layout will be en-US again.
This scenario we were able to reproduce on all VMs with win 10 enterprise 20H2 SAC.
Here some updates on this case:
- the user has to set an input language (keyboard layout) for the preferred language in language settings. This setting will then be applied to the logon screen when he logs off, which is weird. Why a standard user can change the keyboard layout for the logon screen..?
- As soon as another user logs on to the machine, he has no keyboard layouts in the preferred languages and if he sets nothing and logs off, no Keyboard layouts are available and en-US is acitive.
It seems with the latest update Windows now takes the settings of current logged on user and applies them to login screen during log off. As long as no other user will log on, these settings will be kept for logon screen... hopefully this is not by design....
We are seeing this again after the may 2023 updates, across windows 10 platforms.
tried the GPO fix mentioned by @Joe VanHollebeke , which seems to solve it when a user is logged in, but not for the first login where there is no user.
Thing is we are danish based, but we have UK and Swedish users, and they are having the issue with the keyboard reverting to DK when they lock thier PC.
the GPO, looks like it fixed the issue for the user when they are logged in.
I tried adding a Swedish keybord to that key, but it still didnt show on the login in screen before user login.
I have added SWE to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload and then the keyboard is availble before any user logs in.
Giving the user the option to change keyboard if they have special local chars in thier password, but once they login it looks like the GPO to disallow, seems to have fixed the issue for logged on users.
I will do some more testing, with a few users too, and hopefully remember to update here :)
However, when a user logs on, the first few messages and the login screen are still in English. I know I can change this via control panel to make current settings "default for all new users". However, this is a manual operation and I want it to be set this way automatically.
4) GPO has some "override" options, but it sounds a little overkill for this case. These would need to be set in a GPO linked to the OU the computer account resides in.
Computer Config/Windows Settings/Administrative Templates/Control Panel/Regional and Language Options
I have ubuntu 12.04, and 2 languages on my keyboard.Every time the screen goes black it requires my password, which is in English. But the language set is the one I have used last. How can I make it use English by default in the login screen?I am also ok with no password, it is my home computer.
To disable asking for your password when booting your computer we can change the user settings from System Settings... - User Accounts (accessible from the menu in the top right corner when clicking on the cogwheel).
Hi,
is there a way to change selected language in login screen language selector?
We have translated project to Estonian and set Estonian for every user in Gateway.
At the moment login screen language selector shows English by default which is misleading for users.
Users can set the language used for Windows startup messages in the "Welcome screen and new user accounts settings" dialog - which claims to copy language settings to system accounts. I'd expect therefore to be able to get the language used by startup messages using GetSystemDefaultUILanguage - but it seems to only ever come back with the language used to originally install the OS. How can I get the startup messages language?
It appears that GetSystemDefaultUILanguage returns the language that the OS was originally installed with. In 2K8 R2 at least (and probably other post-Vista OSes) users can modify the language used for boot up messages - but this is unfortunately not reflected through GetSystemDefaultUILanguage.
I am running MacOS 10.13.6. I upgrade Security Update 2018-003, Command line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode, Safari to the latest version one day ago. The weird thing is even if the system still shows English in most parts, but the Login Screen and shutdown popup window display Chinese now. I checked System Preferences > Language & Region > I have only English listed in Prefered languages (The region is China because I am currently in China). Can anyone please let me know how to change login screen and shutdown popup window back to show English? Thanks a lot.
Introduced 42.2 openSUSE in a Windows domain. Faced with the fact that there is no possibility of choosing the language in the box, the new user login. I can not enter their user names in the Cyrillic alphabet.
I am not sure (but the OP might know better because he seems to use Cyrillic more then I do) if user names are stored in UTF-8 or restricted to ASCII (in /etc/passwd, etc.). If they can be stored in UTF-8, it must of course be possible to enter them in the boxes and that irrespective of the language used in the texts on that screen.
Anyway, I was able to setup my keyboard layout in the terminal during setup, but when I got Budgie to install it stopped working at the login screen, and only the login screen. So, after I log in, it works normally, but it's a PITA to type it in QWFPG. Err, QWERTY. Heh. Would someone give me a hand? What information do you need from me?
When I ran "loadkeys colemak" during installation it persisted to work after I logged into the OS. After I installed budgie-desktop and the packages that came with it + lightdm, it gave me a GUI login screen. That login screen.
It's just a screenshot I found online, it's not significant what OS it's from if I'm trying to represent what a "login screen" looks like when they're both Budgie. You get the idea and that's what matters in this case.
So I tried adding the above in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf", but when I reboot and have to log in, I type ASDF instead of arst. Meaning my keyboard layout is still in QWERTY not Colemak. The only issue here is the login screen, everything else works.
The config file is wrong, you've only one layout, but try to apply the colemak variant to the second one (which doesn't exist)
Also the toggle is pointless w/ one layout. Don't just blindly copy and paste shit and in doubt use localectl.
But that would require clicking through the GUI on every staged computer and I needed a way to automate it. I used ProcessMonitor.exe to see what is happening when I click the OK button in the dialog, but unfortunately that did not help.
I needed a different idea, so I started thinking: The logon screen is in fact LogonUI.exe that is running in the context of the System account. I searched the web and found that the settings for normal user are located in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload. And mine looked like this:
When the station booted back to the logon screen, the correct keyboard layouts were available there, so this approach should work. Copying the Registry values from one place to another might work but I wanted something more intuitive and flexible.
The International module, introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, provides *-WinUserLanguageList cmdlets to manage the keyboard layouts of the current user and I wanted my function to integrate with them nicely.
At this point one last catch reminded. During the post-deployment tasks the script is executed under the SYSTEM account. So getting the list of languages using the Get-WinUserLanguageList would only re-apply the settings that were already in place. I had to build the list myself and at first I used the following code:
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