[Batch] Remove language batch?

Please feel free to ask any batch file questions in the batch repo.

 

Just want to not have thousand threads when we have the repo. It's just my opinion.

 

@timesurfer

I think it would be a good idea to have individual threads for each problem, so a solution can be posted for it and later discussing and clarifying doubts about the solution.

Everything in a single thread makes it difficult in the later stage of the thread. For example take the Windows Loader thread or Windows Repository thread, how many times have you given the same answer over and over again even though the answer lies in the first post.

 

I agree

 

Run the following code in command prompt to make a list of installed languages.

Code:

for /f "tokens=2,* delims=:" %A in ('"dism /Online /Get-Packages|find "LanguagePack""') do @for /f "tokens=4 delims=~" %a in ("%A") do echo %a

Code:

wmic OS get OSLanguage

This will give the Installed OS language in LCID form. The next step would be to determine a reliable way of getting the system default language.

 

Check this code in VM before trying it out on a real machine. Run the script as Administrator.

Code:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%A in ('wmic os get oslanguage /format:list') do ( 
call :dec2hex %%A
)
for /f %%A in ('reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages"') do ( 
for /f "tokens=3" %%a in ('reg query "%%A" /v LCID') do (
if %%a==%lcid% ( 
for /f "tokens=7 delims=\" %%b in ("%%A") do (
set locale=%%b
)
)
)
)
for /f "tokens=2,* delims=:" %%A in ('"dism /Online /Get-Packages|find "LanguagePack""') do (
for /f "tokens=4 delims=~" %%a in ("%%A") do (
if NOT %locale%==%%a (
set pkg=%%A
set pkg=!pkg: =!
dism /online /Remove-Package /PackageName:!pkg!
)
)
)
pause
exit

:dec2hex
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set /a num=%1
set digits=0123456789ABCDEF
set ans=
:loop
set /a rmd=%num% %% 16
set /a num /= 16
set ans=!digits:~%rmd%,1!%ans%
if NOT %num%==0 goto loop
endlocal & set lcid=0x%ans%
exit /b

First for gets the lcid
Second for convert lcid to locale name
Third for removes language packs except the current language.

 

Did you run it as Administrator?

 

OK lets do it one step at a time

Code:

wmic OS get OSLanguage
reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MUI\UILanguages
dism /Online /Get-Intl

Post the output of the above commands

 

OK, your default language is english and you have a chinese as additional language

Post the output of the following command. Just open a command prompt as Administrator and copy paste the code and hit enter.

Code:

dism /Online /Get-Packages|find "LanguagePack"

This will list the package names of the installed language packs.

 

What the script basically does is gets the LCID from wmic output and stroes it in LCID variable in hexadecimal form.

Next it iterates through the MUI\UILanguages key in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control and matches the LCID value with the subkeys. If a match is successful, it stores the key name say en-us in the locale variable.

Now the dism command is run to find packages with LanguagePack and checks if the locale of the language pack matches with the system locale. If it does not match it issues the RemovePackage command of dism to remove the package.

Add pause to the script after each for and see where it quits abruptly.