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RuuDie (m)
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A neighbour just got a desktop PC, everything seems to be okay with it but the default language is set to GERMAN, how do i correct this ?
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proverbial
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Go to the Start menu and select Control Panel.
• Double-click Regional and Language Options.
• Click the Regional Options tab and within Standards and formats, select the language that you wish.
• Click Apply and then click OK.
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cyras
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proverbial as for ur solution i think u are right, but if the whole write up of the operating system I s german Laguage, E.g My computer, Internet explorer is being written in german, what would be the solution is to format the harddisk and install a windows version for English. I hope this i'll help.  |
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cyras
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proverbial as for ur solution i think u are right, but if the whole write up of the operating system I s german Laguage, E.g My computer, Internet explorer is being written in german, what would be the solution is to format the harddisk and install a windows version for English. I hope this i'll help. |
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Seun (m)
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Thanks for your suggestion but, no, it will not help. Formatting a system is an option to be avoided at all costs.
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cyras
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seun
Thanks for your suggestion but, no, it will not help. Formatting a system is an option to be avoided at all costs. Then if u don't know the solution give alternative solution if u know it, Formatting a system is just erasing the content of harddisk but is not adviceable to format if u have valuable file on the drive. if u reload the OS with english version without formating u are overwriting the system files with different laguage version which will cause alot code error. so if u solution seun share it |
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Mustay (m)
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Proverbial is right now
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ishmael (m)
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@seun
What proverbial said is right but it may not work. I have tried it before but we still ended up not getting into english language because the OS itself was in german language. I had to reinstall the OS in english language. Cyras is right.
Seun if you have a solution better than proverbial then let us know.
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cyras
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ishmael @
Thanks very much ishmael to show that u too have the experience, they is no other solution than this except to reload with english version and seun if another magical way of doing this let us know.
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RuuDie (m)
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thanx everyone,
really don't think there could be any other solution apart from installing a fresh copy of the OS; tried the suggestions here but it don't work. the language setting must have been effected during installation of the OS.
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oyb (m)
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my laptop came with a spanish xp preinstalled,
i installed a pirated version of xp over it.
there was some 1gb of useless data left over.
you may have a lot of deleting to do afterwards.(left over german user profile, etc, which may come up to 1 gb)
after installing, you still have to do the language thingy in the control panel.(set the keyboard layout to German)
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cyras
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RuuDie (m)
thanx everyone,
really don't think there could be any other solution apart from installing a fresh copy of the OS; tried the suggestions here but it don't work. the language setting must have been effected during installation of the OS.Ruudie It seems as if u don't know the basic of Installing of Operating system once u know the basic u would't even have problem of german language at CMOS/BIOS setup at startup or u need assistance of doing this, find somebody that is good or i can fine one for u to install it. 
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abohrandy
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u can install the english OS without formating then gettingout the stuff u will need on another hard drive or flash drive. then format the system, installing the nu os in english.
how about that?
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Slycks (m)
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u can install the english OS without formating then gettingout the stuff u will need on another hard drive or flash drive. then format the system, installing the nu os in english.
how about that?
I think this is the right thing to do . |
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oyb (m)
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make sure you have the driver cd for the system. you will have to reinstall all your drivers after the reinstall.
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