Language Problems & Upgrading

[Guest]

Hi all,
This is my first post so I hope someone can assist. I recently bought a new
PC which came with Vista Home Premuium pre-loaded. I live and work in France
so naturally it is the French version. With my old PC which had the UK
version of Windows 2000, I used to use Dragon Naturally Speaking SR software
which was great. Clearly the new PC will not support this software and
although my version of Vista has SR software built-in it only recognises
French so not much use to me writing reports in English!

I believe that I can upgrade to Vista Ultimate which has other language
packs. So my question is this: Can I simply (?) buy a UK version of Ultimate
and upgrade my current system so that I can then use the SR software and
write in English & if I do this will it wipe my hard drive. Any other advice
about this would be VERY much appreciated. Oh, and by the way I am not a PC
wizard so please keep answers written in plain english! Thanks again. Gérard

 

[Richard G. Harper]

To put it simply - you cannot upgrade and change languages at the same time.
You would need to upgrade in the current language (French to French) THEN
change languages.

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[Miguel Sanchez]

Hi all,
This is my first post so I hope someone can assist.

You ****ing idiot. LOL.. This about your 50th post. The majority of them
are asking for help. The rest of your posts are praising Vista for it's
greatness. Sever retardadtion.

 

[Mingus]

Did you try to install DNS? I am running version 7 on Vista.

/M

 

[Guest]

Hi,
Yes I did try to install DNS. I have V9 Prefferred. Does this make a
difference?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Richard. I'll look out for the French Ultimate upgrade.

To put it simply - you cannot upgrade and change languages at the same time.
You would need to upgrade in the current language (French to French) THEN
change languages.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

Hi all,
This is my first post so I hope someone can assist. I recently bought a
new
PC which came with Vista Home Premuium pre-loaded. I live and work in
France
so naturally it is the French version. With my old PC which had the UK
version of Windows 2000, I used to use Dragon Naturally Speaking SR
software
which was great. Clearly the new PC will not support this software and
although my version of Vista has SR software built-in it only recognises
French so not much use to me writing reports in English!

I believe that I can upgrade to Vista Ultimate which has other language
packs. So my question is this: Can I simply (?) buy a UK version of
Ultimate
and upgrade my current system so that I can then use the SR software and
write in English & if I do this will it wipe my hard drive. Any other
advice
about this would be VERY much appreciated. Oh, and by the way I am not a
PC
wizard so please keep answers written in plain english! Thanks again.
Gérard

 

[Mingus]

Hi,
Yes I did try to install DNS. I have V9 Prefferred. Does this make a
difference?

No - if I can install and use V7 Preferred without any problems, you should
be able to install V9...

What was the problem? Did you try to install as Administrator - or with XP
compatibilty?

/M

 

[Guest]

I have tried to install under my own ID (not administrator as I'm not sure
how to do this) and I get the message that V9 will operate only on 'Windows
2000, XP or Windows 2003 Server' so not sure what to do now.

 

[Mingus]

I have tried to install under my own ID (not administrator as I'm not sure
how to do this) and I get the message that V9 will operate only on
'Windows
2000, XP or Windows 2003 Server' so not sure what to do now.

Try this:

Right-click on the installer file (setup.exe, install.exe...) and select
Properties (Propriétés).

Cilck on the Compatibilté tab, and check Exécuter le programme en mode de
compatibilité pour : Windows XP. Should work.

HTH,
/M