topic Re: How to change the display language to English? in VMware Workstation Pro Discussions

How to change the display language to English?

ITMan01 — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:46:51 GMT

Hi all,

I installed workstation 10.0.0 build-1295980, the display language is Chinese, how to change it to English?

thanks!

Re: How to change the display language to English?

abhilashhb — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:46:55 GMT

If you need to change Workstation UI to English,

Go to your Windows Control Panel,

Click on "Regional and Language",

Change format to "English (United State)".

Then your Workstation will be displayed in English.

Re: How to change the display language to English?

ITMan01 — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 02:10:18 GMT

Is there any other way that specific to workstation only, because I need to keep my Format under Chinese?

Re: How to change the display language to English?

ITMan01 — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:16:36 GMT

could anyone help with this?

Re: How to change the display language to English?

abhilashhb — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:26:48 GMT

AFAIK its still not possible to do it without changing the machine lang.

Re: How to change the display language to English?

a_p_ — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 13:14:07 GMT

What you could try - I'm not sure about side-effects though - is to rename the Chinese resource (messages) sub-directory to make it unavailable. This should force VMware Workstation to fail back to English. The "zh_CN" sub-directory is located in the "messages" directory of the VMware Workstation installation folder. Renaming the sub-directory will make help unavailable from the GUI though. To make this available again, create a new sub-directory "zh_CN" and copy either the default (English) help directory - located directly under "VMware Workstation" - or the Chinese help directory - from the renamed sub-directory - to this new, empty "zh_CN" folder.

André

Re: How to change the display language to English?

ITMan01 — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 14:42:48 GMT

I just renamed the zh_CN folder and it works. I think vmware should give us a option to make display language change though.

thank you!

Re: How to change the display language to English?

tuochenlyu — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:47:52 GMT

Deleting the locale folder works as well. The locale will reverse to English as default.

Don't forget to back up deleted files.

Re: How to change the display language to English?

AndyLi04 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:04:27 GMT

Yes, tested it is working!

Re: How to change the display language to English?

bluefirestorm — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:53:51 GMT

There is a --locale option (those are two dashes) to the vmware.exe on Windows. So you can create a new shortcut with the option.

This results in a Simplified Chinese UI.
vmware.exe --locale=zh_CN

This results in a Japanese UI.
vmware.exe --locale=ja

I don't know what the correct option is for English/Latin but I suppose any incorrect value will fallback to English (just like deleting the folders) as currently there are zh_CN and ja subfolders in the messages folder.
vmware.exe --locale=windows-1252

Re: How to change the display language to English?

razakashif-123 — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:56:46 GMT

"%~dp0VMware.Workstation.16.Pro.v16.2.2.19200509.exe" /S /QE

1. uninstall vmware

2. go through administrative command prompt

3. go to the installer path

4. type "%~dp0VMware.Workstation.16.Pro.v16.2.2.19200509.exe" /S /QE

where /S is for silent install and no dialog will ask/prompt and will install on default option

where /QE is language i.e QE for English, QR for Russian, .....and so on.

This is how i did it. Any question i can be reached by razakashif.sap@gmail.com or through my whatapp +923214194150.

Hope it helps.....this is valid for even now i installed VM workstation 16.x as well.

Re: How to change the display language to English?

sammy668 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 02:13:16 GMT

maybe your pc formats language
try open Control Panel - Region - Format ( English us) and then restart your pc