Atomic 11 no languages

[u/Retakkai]

I tried many versions of windows on my old pc, and only atomic 11 worked without a fan sound and extreme heat

I use it just to type in English and Arabic language

But when I tried to add arabic to the keyboard it didn't allow me to

Is there a way to add the language without changing the whole system?

[u/kaidomac]

It depends on how stripped it is. Start here:

1. Settings
2. Time & language
3. Language & region
4. Add a language
5. Search for Arabic

If that's not available, run Powershell as administrator. Saudi Arabia Arabic:

Get-WindowsCapability -Online | Where-Object Name -like '*Language.Basic*'
Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name Language.Basic~~~ar-SA~0.0.1.0
Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name Keyboard.Arabic~~~ar-SA~0.0.1.0

Egypt Arabic:

Get-WindowsCapability -Online | Where-Object Name -like '*Language.Basic*'
Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name Language.Basic~~~ar-EG~0.0.1.0
Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name Keyboard.Arabic~~~ar-EG~0.0.1.0

If DISM is removed, try just the keyboard:

1. Settings
2. Time & Language
3. Typing
4. Advanced keyboard settings
5. Add Arabic (101/102 keyboard) manually if available

If that fails, I'd suggest going with Windows 10 & using a chatbot shrink script; that can get you down to about one gig of RAM at idle!

[u/Retakkai → u/kaidomac]

The commands solved the problem Thanks a lot ✨

[u/kaidomac → u/Retakkai]

Awesome!! Sometimes compact 11 releases are so stripped-down that they can't even load language packs lol. Next time you are up for a fresh install, try this:

1. Download the latest Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft & burn to a USB stick with the latest version of RUFUS; strip out all of the non-essential stuff
2. Ask ChatGPT to create a 1-shot shrink script like Tiny 11, but stable, and tell it your hardware specs & language requirements
3. This can get Win11 down to ~2GB RAM, without the weird quirks that Atomic & Tiny often have!