Change language Power Automate Desktop

I had an issue that my Power Automate Desktop was in Dutch while I wanted it to be in English like my Operating System language. I manage to figure out what setting was causing this and wanted to share this.

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If all else fails…

I wasn’t able to find a clear setting for the language in Power Automate Desktop. But you know the expression: if all else fails…try ProcMon.

When I had a quick look with ProcMon it look like it was looking at a Languages Multi-string value registry key. The location of that key is this:

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Changing the order

In my example it was just a matter of switching the languages in the preferred language settings. You can find these settings in the time & language settings section of the Windows system settings

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After changing this setting the Power Automate Desktop application should show the English language.

Happy testing!

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6 Responses

  1. Henric Bladh says:

    Hi, thanks for the write up on this topic, however It didn’t help me. I have en-US and Finnish (in the right order) and would like to have the app in English, however I still get it in Finnish. 🙁
    If you have another proposal how to solve this problem please enlighten me. Thanks in advance!

  2. Dennis says:

    Hi Henric,

    This was in of one of the earlier versions of Power Automate Desktop. I have not checked if it is still valid for the latest version of Power Automate Desktop?

    Which version are you running, 2.17 by any chance?

  3. Damian says:

    Thanks for this article, it worked for me!

  4. Dennis says:

    Hi Damian,

    Great to hear this worked for you. Happy to help out.

  5. Lukas says:

    Hey! That worked. Thank you!
    My Windows OS was set to English, so I thought the preferred language would have English at the top as well, but that wasn’t the case. Thank you so much!

  6. Dennis says:

    Hi Lukas,

    Great to hear that worked, thanks for the feedback.

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