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How to change language in windows?

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This tutorial will explain to you how to change language in windows:

Let say you want to add a foreign language to your system, for example Greek (can be any other foreign language).

In this example your system has already 2 languages (Hebrew and English), and you want to add Greek.

Now, before adding Greek the language bar (right bottom corner) has only 2 languages:

Bottom Right Bar languages

Open Control Panel by: "START -> CONTROL PANEL".
In Control Panel window click on "Regional Setting Language" icon.

(In Windows 7 - "Clock, Language, and Region" and "Regional Setting Language")
Click "Languages Tab", Click "Details" - to see your current system languages.

(In Windows 7 - Click the "Keyboards and Languages" tab)
Click "Add" to add another foreign language.

(In Windows 7 - Under "Display language", choose a language , and click OK)
Select the foreign language (In our example Greek) and click "OK".
Now the window "Installed Services" will contain your new Greek language (in addition to Hebrew+English we have before). Click "OK" to close this window and another "OK" to close the "Regional Setting Language" window.
Your language bar (right bottom corner) should be like:

Now you can change your language using the ALT+SHIFT, and write the new foreign language (Greek in this example):

* With LangOver freeware you can change your language without using the ALT+SHIFT, but automatically - Download here.