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OT: Windows language change
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The pseudo-sister in law has a well and truly shagged PC. Needs an Fdisk
and windows install.
I have a copy of XP Pro that I can use - however, once installed, I need
to switch the language to Cloggy. Never having needed to switch
languages on Windows before, I'm not certain if it can be done?
Anyone done such a thing?
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It's easy to modify XP Pro so it's suitable for any foreign language.
Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages then
tick the Disable Lowercase Characters box
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Don't expect him to believe you ;o)
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Start > Control Panel > Date, Time, Language and Regional Options.
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Thanks, I saw that, but it appears to be for programs installed rather
than Windows itself.
Is this something you've done, or are you just helpfully guessing?
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I think you need a regional language version of Windows for that.
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Not exactly...
If you want a cloggy language version, then you have to buy a cloggy
language version.
It's not possible to change languages.
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heh, snap, last count for the Afrikaans geezer I know was 9 languages iirc.
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Almost incomprehensible to us isn't it?
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Certainly, perhaps a Ruski based one too, given the growing relations
and business growth.
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I was afraid of this.
Or, she could just find the current CD's. Although I fear they may be
recovery only as it's a Hewlett Packard.
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You need a Multi Language pack, however they're not available retail ....
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That could be handy to know - thanks!
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The only real difference between a recovery CD and a retail CD, is that a
recovery CD may have additional drivers for your particular computers
hardware that the retail dosent. the toehr thing is that they are designed
to work with a specific make/model of PC. (I know in days of old, Windows
98, a Compaq recovery CD I had would check the serial number of the machine.
(I eventually found out that if I put the Compaq CD in a non-Compaq machine
it would tell you that it was in the wrong machine, and ask you to verify
the Computers serial number. I just had it written down from the case,
bashed it in and away it went...)
All this may be of no use though, as its an HP machine.
"HP PCs that shipped with Windows XP probably do not include recovery discs
in the box. The recovery information is stored in a hidden space (partition)
on the hard drive. This eliminates the need for Recovery CDs that can get
lost or scratched" - The HP website.
If your machine is like this then an FDisk and Re-install probably wont be
possible without a CD. Sorry....
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The Compaq/hp I bought on New Year's Day had the recovery
partition as well as a system utility to burn a recovery DVD or CD series.
So I burned a DVD and decided I may as well burn the CDs as well for
redundancy -- no dice, "You've already run this programme once!" So I
cloned the DVD instead.
Later I did, in a fit of madness, boot to the recovery partition
to try to solve a multiboot problem but it didn't do what I thought it would,
and reverted me to a pretty clean install; I had to reinstall lots of
software I'd loaded before.
So my suggestion would be to back up all important user files,
and boot into the recovery partition if it has one.
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Buy a Fujitsu-Siemens next time :o)
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Get an MSDN account if you don't have the discs, but that'll cost you.
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IIRC there is a Frysian patch for Windows, can't remember where exactly on
the MS site.
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you're a bad man.[1]
[1](They're not Frysian and I'm fairly sure you knew it!)
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ICBW though
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