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Old 05-09-2008
Terry R.
 

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Re: changing language of operating system
The date and time was 5/9/2008 1:10 PM, and on a whim, Tim Slattery
pounded out on the keyboard:

> renatahabdas <renatahabdas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I'm polish but I live in england. I have bought the computer with vista in
>> english version for my brother as a present. unfortunately he doesn't speak
>> english. How can I change the operating systme language from english to
>> polish.

>
> Only Vista Ultimate supports switching languages. So you'd have to
> upgrade whatever version you're using to Ultimate (unless you're
> already there), then apply an English language pack.
>
> Two ways around this have recently come to light. Microsoft has
> recently released language packs for all versions of Vista at the
> download center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. Apparently these
> don't translate quite *everything* in the UI, and it may take a bit of
> searching to find the one you need, if it exists at all.
>
> Another possibility is http://www.froggie.sk/, which claims to allow
> you to use the Ultimate language packs with any version of Vista. I
> have no experience with this myself.
>



Unless it's an error, it doesn't state that here:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...7512d1033.mspx

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Terry R.

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