chinese to english

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I bought a computer off a friend recently. All good except that my friend is
chinese as does the language of windows. Unfortunately friend now moved back
to China. Anyway, trying to change this back again I would have thought would
have been easy but it isn't.

Theoretically I know how to do it, you need to untick a box in the Regional
and Language Options dialogue box but said box has been greyed out so I
can't....does this mean it's not possible and a reinstall is needed, can I
set up a new user account or are there any other options.

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Although i'm not sure, i think there's a chance that there is a version of
Windows Chinese version or something like that. so i'm not sure whether you
can easily fix ur problem

--
Jayso


"wootoo" <wootoo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E2C63768-39F0-494E-A16A-C452B8B474CB@microsoft.com...
>I bought a computer off a friend recently. All good except that my friend
>is
> chinese as does the language of windows. Unfortunately friend now moved
> back
> to China. Anyway, trying to change this back again I would have thought
> would
> have been easy but it isn't.
>
> Theoretically I know how to do it, you need to untick a box in the
> Regional
> and Language Options dialogue box but said box has been greyed out so I
> can't....does this mean it's not possible and a reinstall is needed, can I
> set up a new user account or are there any other options.

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Yep, that's what i thought

Bad Luck mate
--
Jayso

"Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uaNzZPmdFHA.2288@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> If you want to change to English, you will have to purchase an English
> retail XP CD. The language can't be changed from Chinese to English.
>
> --
>
> Will Denny
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
>
>
> "wootoo" <wootoo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E2C63768-39F0-494E-A16A-C452B8B474CB@microsoft.com...
>>I bought a computer off a friend recently. All good except that my friend
>>is
>> chinese as does the language of windows. Unfortunately friend now moved
>> back
>> to China. Anyway, trying to change this back again I would have thought
>> would
>> have been easy but it isn't.
>>
>> Theoretically I know how to do it, you need to untick a box in the
>> Regional
>> and Language Options dialogue box but said box has been greyed out so I
>> can't....does this mean it's not possible and a reinstall is needed, can
>> I
>> set up a new user account or are there any other options.
>
>

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could be worse as I have an english speaking computer and a copy of
xp....however, does the reinstall need a complete one or just a fix type.
Will I need to remove the programs on the computer before hand or will it all
be acknowlegded in the install. Thanks for your help chaps.

"Will Denny" wrote:

> Hi
>
> If you want to change to English, you will have to purchase an English
> retail XP CD. The language can't be changed from Chinese to English.
>
> --
>
> Will Denny
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
>
>
> "wootoo" <wootoo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E2C63768-39F0-494E-A16A-C452B8B474CB@microsoft.com...
> >I bought a computer off a friend recently. All good except that my friend
> >is
> > chinese as does the language of windows. Unfortunately friend now moved
> > back
> > to China. Anyway, trying to change this back again I would have thought
> > would
> > have been easy but it isn't.
> >
> > Theoretically I know how to do it, you need to untick a box in the
> > Regional
> > and Language Options dialogue box but said box has been greyed out so I
> > can't....does this mean it's not possible and a reinstall is needed, can I
> > set up a new user account or are there any other options.
>
>
>

I have the same problem but the non English language is only on the CD drive. Can this be fix easy?

I bought the computer ate the pawn shop.I don't know anything about Piated Software.