Chinese to English?

[Bob Hughes]

My son is in China and has the use of a XP Pro PC. Unfortunatly it is in
Chinese. How does he go about changing it to English. Following is a quote
from him

Most of windows is in chinese characters (control panel, start menu,
microsoft word - when you type in word chinese characters appear). The
language toolbar is installed and as far as I can tell has english selected
(I picked it out from what I think was the regional language menu, again
its hard to say because it was in Chinese). The letters 'EN' appear at the
bottom right of the screen, when i click on them there are also options for
CH and JP. All three options are followed by chinese characters, the EN
one I believe is followed by the 2 characters for english, then the 3
characters for canadian in brackets.

Can any one help?

Bob

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My son is in China and has the use of a XP Pro PC. Unfortunatly it is
in Chinese. How does he go about changing it to English.

Sorry, he can't, at least not without buying and installing a complete new
English version.

 

[Bob Hughes]

Sorry, he can't, at least not without buying and installing a complete
new English version.

I've been led to beleive it can be done with the Pro version. Are you sure
of your statement?

Bob

 

[Bruce Chambers]

My son is in China and has the use of a XP Pro PC. Unfortunatly it is in
Chinese. How does he go about changing it to English. Following is a quote
from him

Most of windows is in chinese characters (control panel, start menu,
microsoft word - when you type in word chinese characters appear). The
language toolbar is installed and as far as I can tell has english selected
(I picked it out from what I think was the regional language menu, again
its hard to say because it was in Chinese). The letters 'EN' appear at the
bottom right of the screen, when i click on them there are also options for
CH and JP. All three options are followed by chinese characters, the EN
one I believe is followed by the 2 characters for english, then the 3
characters for canadian in brackets.

Can any one help?

Bob

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.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282089

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Bruce Chambers

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[Bruce Chambers]

I've been led to beleive it can be done with the Pro version. Are you sure
of your statement?

Bob

You've been somewhat misled. The Multi-Language packs exist, but can
only be installed upon English Volume Licensed installations.


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Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell

 

[Bob Hughes]

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.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282089

Thanks very much for everyones answers. I guess this might help him learn
a little Chinese during the year he is there

Bob

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I've been led to beleive it can be done with the Pro version. Are you
sure of your statement?

Yes. There is a Multi-Language Pack, but it's only for English versions ,
and only for Volume Licensed versions.

 

[Clayton]

I have used a Chinese operating system to type english in msn, emails etc
ok, just that the everything else is in chinese

I think you use ctrl tab or alt tab carn't remember