convert german winxp to english

[Guest]

Hi,

I received a laptop from Germany with installed licenced WinXp in German. Is
there any application or plug-in that can translate WinXp into English?

regards, Sinclair

 

[Peter Foldes]

Yes there is. Go to your nearest supplier and purchase an English version of XP

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

You can't change the language of XP. You will have to purchase a full
retail English version XP CD. You can then either install the English
version instead of the German one or dual boot both.

 

[S.Sengupta]

You will need to buy a full version of XP in your desired language and
have to perform a clean installation.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282089

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Joel Rubin]

Hi

You can't change the language of XP. You will have to purchase a full
retail English version XP CD. You can then either install the English
version instead of the German one or dual boot both.

Of course, you can use just about any language's keyboard and
character set in any version of XP. (Control/Regional and Language
Options, Language tab, details)

You may need a Windows CD although German to English/U.S. might not be
quite as big a deal as when you install support for an ideogram
language or right-to-left language in a Latin alphabet version of
Windows.

You might not be able to get dialogs and help files for standard
Windows progies in English but it might not be that big a deal.

 

[Peter Foldes]

That is *NOT* what the OP asked. Of course you can do what you say but to change the Office XP German into XP English is only achieved by installing the English version of the Office Suite