i dont know if this is the right forum for this question or not, but maybe
someone can help... heres the deal... im in the military and live in
germany... we are deploying to iraq over the next few weeks and i want to
give my desktop computer to my fiance... but... she is german... and has a
hard time using a computer in english, especcially with the keyboard
change... how can i change my windows environment into the german language?
any help would be great... thanks...

Hi,

While you can add support for German, such as keyboard input, the Windows
environment will remain in English. To have a German-based environment would
require purchasing that language edition and performing a clean installation
(conversion is not supported).

You may stumble across references to the MUI, which could actually resolve
this for you, but this tool is only available to corporations with large
volume licenses. It is not available to the consumer market.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Spiffy Shiffy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0A402476-B4F8-4108-839A-(E-Mail Removed)...
>i dont know if this is the right forum for this question or not, but maybe
> someone can help... heres the deal... im in the military and live in
> germany... we are deploying to iraq over the next few weeks and i want to
> give my desktop computer to my fiance... but... she is german... and
> has a
> hard time using a computer in english, especcially with the keyboard
> change... how can i change my windows environment into the german
> language?
> any help would be great... thanks...

Spiffy Shiffy wrote:
> i dont know if this is the right forum for this question or not, but maybe
> someone can help... heres the deal... im in the military and live in
> germany... we are deploying to iraq over the next few weeks and i want to
> give my desktop computer to my fiance... but... she is german... and has a
> hard time using a computer in english, especcially with the keyboard
> change... how can i change my windows environment into the german language?
> any help would be great... thanks...


You cannot upgrade or convert from one language version of the OS to
another, so you'll have to purchase and use the full version of WinXP
(in whatever language you want) to perform a clean installation.

Cannot Upgrade or Install a Different Language Version of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;282089


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