About Vistalizator

Did you buy a Windows laptop from abroad and want it to talk to you in your mother tongue?

Try Vistalizator - this tool allows you to change display language in Windows editions other than (officially supported) Ultimate, like Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium and Business/Professional.

Vistalizator overrides the limit of one MUI language on non-Ultimate Windows editions.
See details about using multiple languages in Windows.

Features

• Works in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista/Windows 7
• Change Windows display language in less than 5 minutes! (Express installation mode)
• Uses official Microsoft Windows language packs
• You can install all 36 MUI languages and switch between them easily
• You can install 55 Vista LIP languages on top of specific MUI languages
• Compatible with Vista Service Pack 1 and Vista Service Pack 2
• User Account Control (UAC) compliant - prompts for administrative privileges
• Windows Speech Recognition works with all supported languages:
  Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish
• Languages can be installed either in Internal or in Express mode, see details

Multiple languages in Windows

To be able to use different/multiple MUI display languages:

• You are the lucky user of Windows Ultimate/Enterprise
• Upgrade your edition to Ultimate - purchase a Windows Anytime Upgrade
• Get a Windows installation DVD in different language and do a clean install of Windows
  (you can use Windows Easy Transfer for all your data and settings)
• Make your own Multilanguage Vista DVD and do a clean install of Vista
• Use Vistalizator in Windows Vista or Windows 7 and install languages in a few minutes

How to install Windows 7 RTM MUI Language Packs

MUI stands for Multilingual User Interface.

There are full (100%) and partial (80% according to Microsoft) MUI language packs.
Full languages change entire Windows 7 environment, partial languages lack some localization and the untranslated user interface is always in English, regardless of the original Windows 7 display language:

• Bootloader: Multi-boot menu, Safe menu options, Memtest
• Administrative Tools: Task Scheduler, Event Viewer, Services, Advanced Firewall...
• Group Policy (Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate only)
• Some help files

You can use these language packs in 32-bit Windows 7 RTM only (original version without a SP).
Upon installing specific MUI languages, you can install additional LIP languages on top of them.

To find out your system properties (32/64-bit, SP installed or not) go to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> System or right-click the Computer icon in Start menu and select Properties.

Download 32-bit Windows 7 RTM MUI Language Packs

(direct links from Microsoft: size varies from 29 to 149 MB)

• Arabic language
• Bulgarian language ***
• Chinese (simplified) language
• Chinese (traditional) language
• Croatian language ***
• Czech language
• Danish language
• Dutch language
• English language
• Estonian language ***
• Finnish language
• French language
• German language
• Greek language
• Hebrew language
• Hungarian language
• Italian language
• Japanese language
• Korean language
• Latvian language ***
• Lithuanian language ***
• Norwegian language
• Polish language
• Portuguese (Brazil) language
• Portuguese (Portugal) language
• Romanian language ***
• Russian language
• Serbian (latin) language ***
• Slovak language ***
• Slovenian language ***
• Spanish language
• Swedish language
• Thai language ***
• Turkish language
• Ukrainian language ***

• Chinese (Taiwan) language

(official language pack, not available from Microsoft due to political reasons)

*** partial language pack, see note above

YES you can do it also, if you dont have windows 7 ultimate or enterprise, if you use Vistalizator you can install multi languages also for Windows 7 home, basic, premium and proffessional.