Windows 8.1 RSAT Tools for UK Edition Language Pack

Grrrrr MICROSOFT!!!!

We are evaluating the Windows 8.1 Preview at work.  Unfortunately we are unable to install the RSAT Tools (same problem as 8.0 if anyone remembers).

The trick is to add the US language pack but how?  There is no download (other than from MSDN which we don't have access to).  Just wondering how anyone else in the UK has managed to get RSAT installed

Thanks!

July 19th, 2013 9:35am

Looks like RSAT only supports those 19 language packs:

<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="fr-FR" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="zh-HK" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="ja-JP" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="ko-KR" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="pt-BR" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="zh-CN" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="pt-PT" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="pl-PL" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="en-US" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="tr-TR" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="nl-NL" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="sv-SE" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="de-DE" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="es-ES" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="ru-RU" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="hu-HU" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="zh-TW" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="it-IT" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-WindowsFoundation-LanguagePack-Package" version="6.3.0.0" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="cs-CZ" buildType="release"></assemblyIdentity>

You can add EN-US and easily download the language pack:

Using the language you want

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/21/using-the-language-you-want.aspx

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July 19th, 2013 3:18pm

Thanks, the above screenshots are for Windows 8

This is for Windows 8.1 and is quite different.  Do you know how I can add language packs on 8.1

Please remember I do not have access to MSDN so unable to download anything from that site (like the Windows 8.1 Preview Language Pack add-on)

July 22nd, 2013 3:58am

the same works for 8.1:

Language packs are available for Windows 8.1 Preview

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2839636/en-us

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July 22nd, 2013 3:40pm

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