Installing Dutch and English languages on XP Home?

[Ian Hayes]

I have an English friend who lives in Holland. He has a desktop PC that runs
'XP Home' with a Dutch language setup for his Dutch speaking children.
There are separate user logins setup for him and each child.

For his own use on this PC he'd like to change the deployed language from
Dutch to English. Is this possible on 'XP Home', if so how?

We've looked at the various regional settings dialogs and we can't see a way
of installing/employing native English.

Any ideas?

 

[Don Phillipson]

I have an English friend who lives in Holland. He has a desktop PC that runs
'XP Home' with a Dutch language setup for his Dutch speaking children.
There are separate user logins setup for him and each child.

For his own use on this PC he'd like to change the deployed language from
Dutch to English. Is this possible on 'XP Home', if so how?

Generally no: Windows operating systems are hard-coded to
single languages. However those parts that are stored as text
files (e.g. BOOT.INI) can be revised to display screen messages
in any language that can be written in ASCII.

The OP may wish to investigate WP software described as
multilingual (e.g. Star Office = Open Office, which incudes Dutch.)

 

[Ken Blake]

I have an English friend who lives in Holland. He has a desktop PC that
runs 'XP Home' with a Dutch language setup for his Dutch speaking children.
There are separate user logins setup for him and each child.

For his own use on this PC he'd like to change the deployed language from
Dutch to English. Is this possible on 'XP Home',

No.He needs to buy and install an English version for this.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have an English friend who lives in Holland. He has a desktop PC that
runs 'XP Home' with a Dutch language setup for his Dutch speaking
children. There are separate user logins setup for him and each child.

For his own use on this PC he'd like to change the deployed language
from Dutch to English. Is this possible on 'XP Home', if so how?

We've looked at the various regional settings dialogs and we can't see a
way of installing/employing native English.

Any ideas?

The Multilingual User Interface (MUI) is available only for Volume
Licensed English versions of WinXP Pro. For any other type of WinXP
license, you cannot upgrade or convert from one language version of the
OS to another, so you'd have to purchase and use the full version of
WinXP (in whatever language you want) to perform a clean installation.


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