ThinkVantage System Update - wrong language [ Edited ]

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I'm currently running ThinkVantage System Update 4 (4.00.0030) on Windows 7 Pro x64 and I have the same problem. The program uses your Regional Setting FORMAT  to get the updates. This is the first tab option in Regional Settings (not your Regional Setting Input Language nor your Regional Setting System Locale). Why, I didn't find a good answer to that? The problem seems to persist from the early versions of System Update ; we are at version 4... common!!?

You can actually override the GUI language of System Update by changing the value of this registry key :

For Win 7 x64 :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Lenovo\System Update\LanguageOverride

For x86 (32 bits) version, I think this is the key :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lenovo\System Update\LanguageOverride

 ... to the language of your choice (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES...).

Unfortunately, this is just the GUI language, not the language for which System Update will retrieve update from the server. The program will still use your Regional Setting FORMAT for this.

I've read many post on the topic but didn't find a right solution. The dowloaded software and drivers language should be retrieved as per language setting of the OS not on date, time and number formats. If it's too hard to get the right setting from a multilanguage system, why not simply put a configurable language option? Is Lenovo going to fix the problem?

For now, the workaround is to dumbly set the Regional Setting Format to the "language" you wish before starting System Update and set it back to your preferred format when all update are installed. Any better idea?

 P.S. Could a mod rename and move this topic in ThinkPad Forum please, because I think this is more related to System Update software than X Series Laptops

[tomvdp]

I bought an X200T in Belgium, chose the English version of Windows Vista Business upon first boot.

Yet some Lenovo  software is still in Dutch.

The ThinkVantage System Update wants to download updates for Windows Vista NL instead of ENG.  I have already downloaded the latest English version of ThinkVantage System Update but it insists speaking Dutch to me and does not recognize my system as being English.

Installing NL updates for an English OS is a recipe for disaster, I presume, so I cannot use that tool.

[tomvdp]

Sorry to reply to my own message, but I got it solved.

The System Updater apparently uses the "Current format" setting from the Regional and Language Options control panel.  This is wrong IMHO.

It should better check the version of the OS, the input language or the system locale.  All English in my case.