XP newbie woes

From: Anon (iandl_malaga_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:06:32 -0700

Hi folks,

I've just been and bought a new machine pre-loaded with
XP Home Edition. I am currently resident in Spain and
managed to get myself a machine with XP in Spanish.

I have two problems. Firstly, I do not seem to be able to
change to English. From what little I've been able to
find out so far (see problem 2) it would seem that I have
to go out and *buy* an English copy of XP if I want to be
able to read anything and then do a completely clean
reinstall. Is that right? It seems a bit bloody drastic
to me that I have to pay for something twice just because
I live in another country.

Problem 2: I had a similar problem to this on my old
machine with Telefonica installation software which, most
kindly, thought that I wanted to have all my menu options
(in any program) in Spanish. I cured it by downloading
the latest version of IE.

Ok, thinks I, let's try the same thing again. Go through
the MS download and it tells me that I have to uninstall
the original IE because the language is different. Uhh?

Ok, I do that and continue with the install. Bong! A few
bytes later I get a message telling me that the version
of IE on my machine (which, of course, isn't there any
more) is newer than the version I'm getting from
Micro$oft! Now I'm stuffed either way. I've tried to
reinstall IE from the CD but it doesn't come back.
(Should I send a copy of the CD to MS so they have the
latest version available??? ;-) )

Any advice will be gratefully received.

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