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Rod Jones
I'm currently living in France and recently purchased an Acer computer here,
with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I'd assumed that I'd be able to select
English as the display language but, apart from being able to select an
English keyboard, everything is in French. If necessary, I'll live with this
(it's a way of improving my French) but, if I could do it at reasonable cost,
I'd like to convert it to English.
Purchsing the full English version is out of the question, as is upgrading
to French Vista Ultimate and downloading an English language pack. Purchasing
the English Home Premium Upgrade would have been OK, but I believe that this
won't work with my current French version. An upgrade DVD was included with
the computer, which appears to require payment on-line; I assume that this
would be French also, so it's of no use to me.
This seems to leave buying the English Home Premium OEM as the only viable
option. However, I'm uncertain about the practicality of doing this. For
example, would I do a 'clean' installation? I'm not really sure what this
means. What about activation? I've seen various conflicting reports on this.
I believe that my pre-installed French Vista will have a hidden product key,
so I can't use that. There's a 25-digit Vista product key on a label attached
to my computer - would I use that?
Any advice would be appreciated.
with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I'd assumed that I'd be able to select
English as the display language but, apart from being able to select an
English keyboard, everything is in French. If necessary, I'll live with this
(it's a way of improving my French) but, if I could do it at reasonable cost,
I'd like to convert it to English.
Purchsing the full English version is out of the question, as is upgrading
to French Vista Ultimate and downloading an English language pack. Purchasing
the English Home Premium Upgrade would have been OK, but I believe that this
won't work with my current French version. An upgrade DVD was included with
the computer, which appears to require payment on-line; I assume that this
would be French also, so it's of no use to me.
This seems to leave buying the English Home Premium OEM as the only viable
option. However, I'm uncertain about the practicality of doing this. For
example, would I do a 'clean' installation? I'm not really sure what this
means. What about activation? I've seen various conflicting reports on this.
I believe that my pre-installed French Vista will have a hidden product key,
so I can't use that. There's a 25-digit Vista product key on a label attached
to my computer - would I use that?
Any advice would be appreciated.