Back in those days, if you wanted to play some games imported from Japan, they would check that you had your region and language settings set to Japanese as a sort of soft-region locking.
I had to spend an extra $50 for ultimate to make it so that I could play my shitty anime games in the late 2000s.
Multiple languages for the OS was an Ultimate-only feature in 7; otherwise you were stuck with only the language(s) that came with your edition.
This part sucked real bad.
Back in those days, if you wanted to play some games imported from Japan, they would check that you had your region and language settings set to Japanese as a sort of soft-region locking.
I had to spend an extra $50 for ultimate to make it so that I could play my shitty anime games in the late 2000s.
I remember using software that let you play those with a Japanese locale