Well its not just windows update. Windows is just one of the ones I am trying to find a work around for.

I am here for at least another 6 months so waiting until I get home may not be wise.

I get a critical update notice in English then when I try it comes back at me in Chinese.

I appreciate IP based profiling but there should be an override or some instructions to force it to stay in the language of the operating system for example.