# Specify a Default Display Language
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There are two ways to specify the default display language for your users’ streaming sessions. Use the WorkSpaces Applications default application and Windows settings feature, or configure your image builder while signed in with an account that has local administrator permissions. The procedure in this section describes how to specify a default display language by using the WorkSpaces Applications default application and Windows settings feature.

**Note**  
Changing the display language in Windows also automatically changes the user locale and input method to match the language and region of the display language. If you want all three settings to match, you do not need to separately change the user locale or input method.

1. Connect to the image builder that you want to use and sign in with the **Template User** account. To do so, do either of the following: 
   + [Use the WorkSpaces Applications console](managing-image-builders-connect-console.md) (for web connections only)
   + [Create a streaming URL](managing-image-builders-connect-streaming-URL.md) (for web or WorkSpaces Applications client connections)
**Note**  
If the image builder that you want to connect to is joined to an Active Directory domain and your organization requires smart card sign in, you must create a streaming URL and use the WorkSpaces Applications client for the connection. For information about smart card sign in, see [Smart Cards](feature-support-USB-devices-qualified.md#feature-support-USB-devices-qualified-smart-cards).

   **Template User** lets you create default application and Windows settings for your users. For more information, see "Creating Default Application and Windows Settings for Your WorkSpaces Applications Users" in [Default Application and Windows Settings and Application Launch Performance in Amazon WorkSpaces Applications](customizing-appstream-images.md).

1. On the image builder desktop, choose the Windows **Start** button, and choose **Control Panel**.

1. Choose **Clock, Language, and Region**, then **Language**, **Add a language**.

1. Choose a language, and choose **Add**.
**Note**  
Currently, WorkSpaces Applications supports only **English (United States)** and **Japanese**.

1. The language that you selected appears in the list of languages you added to Windows. Choose the language that you just added. Then choose **Move up** until the language appears at the top of the language list.

1. Choose **Advanced Settings**. Under **Override for Windows display language**, choose your language from the list.

1. If you want to use the input method associated with the language that you added, under **Override for default input method**, choose the input method for the language.

1. Choose **Save**. When prompted to log off, choose **Log off now**.

1. When prompted, log in again to the image builder as **Template User**. Confirm that Windows is using the display language that you selected. 

1. In the upper right area of the image builder desktop, choose **Admin Commands**, **Switch User**.   
![\[Admin Commands dropdown menu with Switch User option highlighted.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/appstream2/latest/developerguide/images/admin-commands-switch-user.png)

1. When prompted, log in as **Administrator**.

1. If required, configure additional default regional or language settings. Otherwise, on the image builder desktop, open Image Assistant and install and configure applications for streaming. 

1. In Step 2 of the Image Assistant process, choose **Save settings**.

1. Follow the necessary steps in Image Assistant to finish creating your image. For information about how to create an image, see [Tutorial: Create a Custom WorkSpaces Applications Image by Using the WorkSpaces Applications Console](tutorial-image-builder.md).

1. Do one of the following:
   + Create a new fleet and choose your new image for the fleet. For information, see [Create an Amazon WorkSpaces Applications Fleet and Stack](set-up-stacks-fleets.md).
   + Update an existing fleet to use the new image.

1. Associate your fleet with the stack that is assigned to the users for whom you are configuring the default settings. 

   The default display language and associated user locale and input method settings that you configured are applied to the fleet instances and user streaming sessions that are launched from those instances.

   Alternatively, you can configure a default display language while logged in to the image builder as **Administrator**. If you chose different display languages while you were logged in under the **Template User** and **Administrator** accounts and you chose **Save settings** in Step 2 of the Image Assistant process, the **Template User** settings take precedence.

**Note**  
Your users can change their user locale and input method from the default settings that you configured. They can change to any one of 11 different supported locales and nine different supported input methods. To do so, they can configure their regional settings during application streaming sessions, as described in [Enable Your WorkSpaces Applications Users to Configure Their Regional Settings](regional-settings.md). Also, if a user previously selected a user locale or input method when streaming from any fleet instance in the same Region, those user-specified settings automatically override any default user locale and input method that you specify through your image builder.