The Windows operating system provided by the "Aliyun" cloud server is the Chinese standard version of the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Before used to use the English version of Windows, one of the advantages of the English version, there are errors, according to the English error information to search, easier to find relevant information.
As a result, you want to change the display language of the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Chinese Standard Edition to English, but in Windows Update you find no language packs to choose from, and if so, you can install the English language installation package directly (perhaps for some reason, this version of Windows Server has disabled this feature). To solve this problem, you can only find the standalone installation package and search through Google for an installation package on the Microsoft Web site--windows Server 2008 R2 Multilingual User Interface Language packs (Date publis hed:9/3/2009, Windows6.1-kb974587-x64-en-us.exe), but cannot be installed, this language pack only supports Windows Server 2008 R2 and does not support Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
Later, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 multilingual User Interface Language packs was found (7601.17514.101119-1850_x64fre_serv Er_langpacks_1-grmsxlp1_dvd.iso), but this installation package has 2.7 G, contains a lot of language package, not only English language pack, no other choice, can only install this package, but download speed is not ideal.
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While waiting for the download, I submitted a work order on the Aliyun Web site asking why the English version of Windows is not available ... Unexpectedly, Aliyun's customer service helped me find a separate english language package download link: Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 multilingual User Interface Language packs (Windows6.1 -kb2483139-x64-en-us.exe), file size only 73.8 M.
After installing this English language pack, in the Control Panel-> "Regional and Language", select "Keyboard and Language", select "Chinese" in the "Select display language" Drop-down list (as shown below), click "OK", log off and log back in to the current account, and the display language becomes English.
Added: Windows Server 2012 English Language Pack download address