Microsoft should alter the upgrade install engine so that a
menu option to change the language would be available if the
upgrade was a different language.
It could take the form of a warning, "You are attempting to
change the language of the presently installed installation,
do you wish to change the language to "English" Y es N o"
message | |
| > Yes, but when an upgrade version checks for a qualifying
OS, it
| also checks
| > that OS's language. So if you try to use an English
upgrade
| with a Spanish
| > base OS, you'll get an error message saying that no
qualifying
| OS can be
| > found, and the upgrade will fail.
|
|
| However, as long as you also own a CD of a legitimate
English
| previously qualifying operating system, such as Windows 98
or Me,
| you can format the drive, then use an English Upgrade
version to
| install cleanly.
|
| The requirement isn't really that you have to use an
English Full
| version, it's that you have to do a clean installation; an
| English Upgrade version meets that requirement if you meet
the
| requirements to use that English Upgrade version.
|
| --
| Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
| Please reply to the newsgroup
|
|
| > "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm>
wrote in
| message
| > | > > Wouldn't the upgrade do a clean install?
| > >
| > > | > > | It has to be a full version, since an upgrade
version will
| > > only upgrade to
| > > | the same language as the original.
| > > |
| > > | "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm>
wrote
| > > in message
| > > | | > > | > You will have to buy an English version. I think
an
| > > upgrade
| > > | > version will work, but you must do a clean install
(or
| > > dual
| > > | > boot). You will need the XP Pro version if you
have XP
| > > Pro
| > > | > Spanish.
| > > | >
| > > | > I could be wrong, but I'm sure that an MVP will
correct
| > > my
| > > | > errors.
| > > | >
| > > | >
| > > | > "(e-mail address removed)"
<
[email protected]>
| > > | > wrote in message
| > > | > | > > | > | I purchased my PC in Spain and want to change
all the
| > > | > | displays into English language from Spanish. I
have
| > > tried
| > > | > | going through Control Panel/Regional Setting and
| > > selected
| > > | > | Ingles (Reino Unido) i.e English(UK) but
everything is
| > > | > | still in Spanish. Is there anything we can do or
| > > download
| > > | > | from Microsoft web site to fix this?
| > > | > |
| > > | > | TIA
| > > | > | Joy
| > > | >
| > > | >
| > > |
| > > |
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
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