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How to fix Microsoft Visual studio code, language pack issue from English to French at first launch.

PATIL Purna (SAFRAN) 0 Reputation points
2025-01-09T15:26:43.75+00:00

We are facing issue regarding the Microsoft Visual studio code --language pack, so we need to change the display language of the software to French(FR), so as per information provided on visual studio code page, we downloaded the language pack and also edited the argv.json file but even Tho keeping this files and folders priorly after installation, still at first launch we are getting English language only. Please refer attached image 1eng Image 1

. As we are getting French language at 2nd launch(Refer image 2),french Image 2

we also tried to add start process of code.exe and killed it so it gets launched at once into the script. but still even after keeping user data files, language package and also start process and kill through script still English language gets displayed.

Summary: On first launch we are getting English language even after keeping all the needed data in user context, but after closing the software and relaunch it manually then only it displays French lang. Not of first launch. Please help us understand if any additional parameters files to be added to make it work on first launch.

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  1. Tianyu Sun-MSFT 32,141 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2025-01-10T03:51:15.8+00:00

    Hello @PATIL Purna (SAFRAN) ,

    Thank you for taking time to post this issue in Microsoft Q&A forum.

    Try this => open VS Code, close all pages in VS Code(include the welcome page) => click Manage icon(on the bottom left) => Settings => search "startup" => select Workbench => set "Startup Editor" to none => close VS Code, restart your machine and check again.

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    As Visual Studio Code(different from Visual Studio IDE) is currently not supported in Microsoft Q&A forum, if above method doesn’t work, please kindly post this issue on Github - vs code for better help.

    BTW, I can reproduce this issue. Every time I restart my machine, and open Visual Studio Code for the first time, the language shows incorrectly. I don’t think that you miss any steps or configurations. On my side, after doing above changes, it works. After that I change the settings back, but I don't get the same issue anymore. I strongly recommend you report this issue to Visual Studio Code team and double confirm with them if this is a potential issue.

    Thanks for your understanding, happy coding!

    Tianyu

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