adding english dsl software to french xp OS

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We have an intern from France, with a Dell laptop loaded
with the French version of XP. The SBC DSL disk won't spin
up and SBC Helpdesk says that any english software will
have trouble loading until I add a "os translation" pack
from Microsoft.
Does anyone have any information about that?
Thanks in advance.
John
 
John said:
We have an intern from France, with a Dell laptop loaded
with the French version of XP. The SBC DSL disk won't spin
up and SBC Helpdesk says that any english software will
have trouble loading until I add a "os translation" pack
from Microsoft.
Does anyone have any information about that?
Thanks in advance.
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Is it NECESSARY to have the software installed at all to use the DSL?
 
That is a good point [NECESSARY] and I'm not sure. MCSE
w/Win2000 but a little lost in XP. I do know that XP will
add pppoe but where does it capture username/pw to pass on
to SBC and can it handle French to English? This is prety
interesting for me, I'm trying to use an operating system
I don't know very well and it is in a language I don't
know at all. :-)
 
John said:
We have an intern from France, with a Dell laptop loaded
with the French version of XP. The SBC DSL disk won't spin
up and SBC Helpdesk says that any english software will
have trouble loading until I add a "os translation" pack
from Microsoft.
Does anyone have any information about that?
Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...
Is it NECESSARY to have the software installed at all to use the DSL?
Click to expand...

That is a good point [NECESSARY] and I'm not sure. MCSE
w/Win2000 but a little lost in XP. I do know that XP will
add pppoe but where does it capture username/pw to pass on
to SBC and can it handle French to English? This is prety
interesting for me, I'm trying to use an operating system
I don't know very well and it is in a language I don't
know at all. :-)
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Points taken. heh

I have not seen a case where (other than driver software) it was necessary
to have the proprietary software installed to connect to the Internet.
However, I too would be talking without experience in the matter because I
do not know how every ISP would set up their configuration.

This would be the point where I would call and ask for a few techs to talk
to and find out if Windows XP just has the ability to use their service
without having to install some "foreign" (pun. heh) software?
 
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