I recently purchased an Asus UL30A slim notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium x64 pre-installed. I've just about gotten all my settings the way I'd like (by uninstalling all the Asus pre-installed junk), but the one setting I cannot seem to fix is to get rid of the display language select box that constantly show up in the upper-left on the Windows 7 Welcome screen (initial login, or any time you lock the system of hit CTRL-ALT-DEL). Despite the fact that I have no other display languages installed AND also no extra keyboard languages installed, this box always appears. It defaults to "EN" (as it should), but "CH" (Traditional, Taiwan) is also available as an option. I cannot for the life of me figure out where it's getting that this language is currently installed on the system (keyboard or display), as I've completely removed everything possible other than English from the system. If anyone can offer insight into how to remove this Chinese option permanently from my system I would greatly appreciate it. Note, I don't have any language packs installed from Office 2007 either. Thanks in advance.

You must contact Asus for assistance. Asus has customized their installation of Windows 7 and Microsoft cannot tell you what they did. Asus is solely responsible for Windows 7 support on OEM pre-installed customized versions of Windows 7.

Hi opus20745, Please try the following suggestions to check this issue: 1. Go to Start, click Control Panel. 2. View by "Large icons". 3. Click Region and Language. 4. On the Keyboards and Languages tab, click "Change keyboards…". 5. Highlight "Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)" in the Installed services box, and then click Remove button. 6. Click OK. Check if the issue can be resolved. Regards, Linda

i had the same issue with my new fujitsu laptop. and no matter what you do it wont go away. i finally found a way for it. here it is. go to control panel then region and language then click on administrative tab then click on copy settings then check your current user language and then check the welcome screen settings. both should be english. if welcome screen is chinese and the current is english, then click on copy your current settings to welcome screen.then click on apply. and then again to system locale language and change to english as well. this should solve your issue. tc