Re: chinese to english

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Hi

If you want to change to English, you will have to purchase an English
retail XP CD. The language can't be changed from Chinese to English.

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Will Denny
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"wootoo" <wootoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E2C63768-39F0-494E-A16A-C452B8B474CB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I bought a computer off a friend recently. All good except that my friend
>is
> chinese as does the language of windows. Unfortunately friend now moved
> back
> to China. Anyway, trying to change this back again I would have thought
> would
> have been easy but it isn't.
>
> Theoretically I know how to do it, you need to untick a box in the
> Regional
> and Language Options dialogue box but said box has been greyed out so I
> can't....does this mean it's not possible and a reinstall is needed, can I
> set up a new user account or are there any other options.


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