Why does Windows 11 show German Extended in keyboard layout?

[Roasted Bunny]

I understand that English is a Germanic language but it's clearly not German.

https://imgur.com/a/VV67TMw

[Bad 💀 Motha]

1. Open the Settings app and go to “Time & Language” > “Language”.
2. Under “Preferred languages”, ensure that English (United States) is at the top of the list.
3. Click on “Options” next to English (United States).
4. Make sure that “Set as my Windows display language” is turned on.
5. If it’s not already installed, click on “Download” under “Speech”.
6. Restart your computer.

If that doesn’t work, open the Command Prompt as an administrator and enter the following command: "DISM /Online /Set-DefaultUILanguage:en-US". This should set the system display language to English (US) and override any incorrect language settings.

[Roasted Bunny]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

1. Open the Settings app and go to “Time & Language” > “Language”.
2. Under “Preferred languages”, ensure that English (United States) is at the top of the list.
3. Click on “Options” next to English (United States).
4. Make sure that “Set as my Windows display language” is turned on.
5. If it’s not already installed, click on “Download” under “Speech”.
6. Restart your computer.

If that doesn’t work, open the Command Prompt as an administrator and enter the following command: "DISM /Online /Set-DefaultUILanguage:en-US". This should set the system display language to English (US) and override any incorrect language settings.

Neither work for some reason and I get this in CMD:

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.26100.1150

Image Version: 10.0.26100.3323


Error: 87

The set-defaultuilanguage option is unknown.
For more information, refer to the help by running DISM.exe /?.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

[Bing Chilling]

settings>time and language>language>preferred languages

click on the German language and remove it

[Roasted Bunny]

Originally posted by Bing Chilling:

settings>time and language>language>preferred languages

click on the German language and remove it

https://prnt.sc/9yeEMepsiV-R

I don't have German selected which is strange

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Do a clean install of Win11 24H2 and select Englush (US) right from the start if that's what you want. Then after the install reaches the setup portion where you about to create the OS account, set Country to one from EU, like France but with English for Language this will be better so your Win11 abides by the EU Privacy Laws. Once WU is all done and rebooted send you uninstall Edge and OneDrive (after installing a browser like maybe Firefox or Chrome and set it to default) then go ahead and switch the Country + TimeZone to your personal preference

[Roasted Bunny]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Do a clean install of Win11 24H2 and select Englush (US) right from the start if that's what you want. Then after the install reaches the setup portion where you about to create the OS account, set Country to one from EU, like France but with English for Language this will be better so your Win11 abides by the EU Privacy Laws. Once WU is all done and rebooted send you uninstall Edge and OneDrive (after installing a browser like maybe Firefox or Chrome and set it to default) then go ahead and switch the Country + TimeZone to your personal preference

I might just have to put up with it. I'm using a recently gifted MacBook Pro and I had to go through Windows 10 since drivers are not supported for Windows 11.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No if it has Win10 drivers, those are the same drivers you'd use on Win11. They are jot any different

[Roasted Bunny]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

No if it has Win10 drivers, those are the same drivers you'd use on Win11. They are jot any different

Yeah I mean Apple Bootcamp doesn't allow you to install Windows 11 first. It only allows you to install Windows 10 because of TPM 2.0 most likely.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

That doesn't make any sense. Win10 don't need sny tpm, Win11 does

[Roasted Bunny]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

That doesn't make any sense. Win10 don't need sny tpm, Win11 does

Because of TPM 2.0 it prevents me from installing Windows 11

[HIVEmind]

rufus. fixes everything.

[HIVEmind]

I think he's trying to say. some win10 drivers work on win11. well audio for me atleast.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Roasted Bunny:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

That doesn't make any sense. Win10 don't need sny tpm, Win11 does

Because of TPM 2.0 it prevents me from installing Windows 11

You mean the lack of it? Cause if you have TPM 2.0 and not 1.x then Win11 should normally install just fine

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by HIVEmind:

I think he's trying to say. some win10 drivers work on win11. well audio for me atleast.

When it comes to Drivers, there is no general differences between WIn10/11 in that regard, they are same exact driver packages. For example go on NVIDIA website and go to where you can pick a driver, regardless of picking Win10 or 11, it's the same exact driver package.

Now if you pick Win7/8, then you would get a different package entirely, even if you comparing the same exact Driver Version. On Win10/11 they will differ from Win7/8, but the 10 vs 11 driver is not different from one another; it's the same.

Win 10 vs 11 use the same DCH method for Drivers. Win7/8 do not use that.

"DCH" stands for Declarative Componentized Hardware, which refers to a new type of driver package designed for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) based editions of Windows. As long as your WIn10 is 64bit, it relies on DCH Drivers, just like Win11 does.

For some things you can even use older Win7/8 Drivers; such as for LAN/WIFI if no newer drivers exist. Like in the case of older hardware. However if your PC lacks a proper driver for the GPU, it might not be able to properly support 3D Hardware Acceleration under Win10/11. Which is why I do not recommend that folks install Win10 on a device (such as Laptop) that has Intel GPU older then Intel HD 4xxx series. And for Win11, nothing older then Intel UHD 6xx series. However if you are using an Ethernet or WiFi chipset that lacks at least a Win10 64bit Driver, it should be replaced anyways because that basically means it's so old it lacks more modern protocols for both connectivity as well as security.