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BeemerBiker
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Country code for language and keyboard

If you purchased a PC it comes with a product ID which includes a country code.:  PPPPPPP#CCC 

The product ID is  7 characters and the country code is 3 characters long.

If you have cloud recovery you can do a factory restore.  Possibly you can change the country code to get a factory restore for a different language and keyboard.

Factory restore requires a serial number, not just the product ID.  

Lookup the country you want the keyboard and language to have available and create a factory restore by combining the product ID with the # and CCC code..

 

#A2M Iceland English#ABN Norway#AKG Eastern Europe
#A2N Saudi Arabia Arabic'English#ABP Swiss (German)#AKJ Hebrew (English)
#A2Q Ukraine Ukrainian#ABQ Swiss (French)#AKL Thailand
#AB0 Taiwan#ABS Sweden#AKN Slovenia
#AB1 Korea#ABT Hebrew#AKQ Serbia Serbian
#AB2 China#ABU UK (English)#AKR Slovakia
#AB4 Singapore Malaysia#ABV Arabia (English)#AKS Bulgaria English
#AB5 Hong Kong#ABW Belgium (Flemish)#AKV South America (Spanish)
#AB6 Arabia (French)#ABX Finland#ARE Malaysia English
#AB7 Greece#ABY Denmark#ARL Baltic
#AB8 Turkey#ABZ Italy#B10 Africa Portuguese
#AB9 Portugal#AC4 Brazil#B16 LA Spanish
#ABA US (English)#AC8 Argentina (Spanish)#B1R Baltics Estonia en/lt/lv/ee
#ABB Europe (English)#ACB Russia#BCM Ukraine
#ABC Canada (French)#ACJ India#BED Adriatics en/sl/hr/sr
#ABD Germany#ACQ South Africa#BH4 Africa fr/ar/en FR KB
#ABE Spain#ACY Sweden (English)#BH5 kenya
#ABF France#AH3 Palestine Arabic/English#BJA Kazakhstan Russian
#ABG Australia#AK8 Sweden/Finland se/fi/en#UUF Asia Pacific English
#ABH Netherlands#AKB Czech#UUG Belgium french
#ABJ Japan#AKC Hungary#UUW Skandinavien
#ABL Canada english/french#AKD Poland#UUZ Switzerland
#ABM L A (Spanish)#AKE Romania Romanian

 

 

On some HP systems you can test your recovery code by clicking here

Alternately, enter WSRESET in the Windows 10 / 11 search bar and download the latest HP Cloud Recovery app

Business systems have Client Recovery and it is likely the language cannot be changed.

 

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