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Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard gives error messages in German...

Hello,

For some reason when we receive error messages on a specific server, they are displayed in German rather than English. Under Region and Language within the Control Panel, all applicable settings are either English or United States. I can't find anything mentioning German.

An example screenshot is below (co-worker said this message is an unable to log in because of lack of permission issue).

Thanks for any help.

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rindi

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Palaceit

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Thanks for the response. Do you know if there is a way to verify this? I would imagine the install language would be logged somewhere.

rindi

In Region and Language, Keyboards and languages, select install/uninstall languages, then uninstall display languages. You should then see all the languages installed, and all except the main language should have a check box so you could remove it.

I have just, by the way, installed the German Language pack to my English 2008 r2 server, created a German user account and made German his language, and some of the messages appear in English and not German.

Palaceit

ASKER

Interesting. I'm at the point where I guess I'll just deal with it until the server gets replaced. Incidentally when I checked the area you mentioned only English was listed:

Language
(yellow exclamation) English (English)

Type
MUI

Size
(blank)

Message
Language is the system language (default language of the user interface).

Palaceit

ASKER

rindi provided a possible cause for the problem. I have not been able to locate a possible solution short of formatting the server and starting from scratch.