Earle
Thu May 08 11:40:40 PDT 2008
"Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
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> Gek <Gek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I would like to upgrade my Ducth Vista into an English version?
>>What shall I do?
Copy data to a backup device. Install a 100% new system from English-only
install media. Copy/restore your data back to the system. Visit your
computer manufacturer's web site to obtain English-language driver files.
It may have these already.
>
> Only Vista Ultimate supports switching languages. So you'd have to
> upgrade whatever version you're using to Ultimate (unless you're
> already there), then apply an English language pack.
>
> Two ways around this have recently come to light. Microsoft has
> recently released language packs for all versions of Vista at the
> download center:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. Apparently these
> don't translate quite *everything* in the UI, and it may take a bit of
> searching to find the one you need.
Language Interface Packs are designed to be applied over an English or other
commonly used language system (e.g Spanish) to provide an interface in a
less commonly used language. Examples are Tamil over English or Basque over
Spanish. It does not appear from the materials on
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/ that one could apply an English
interface over a Dutch base system. A limited number of Language Interface
Packs seem to be available, and I would assume that support is not good,
compared to what it available for an English system.
Nice try though.
Earle
>
> Another possibility is
http://www.froggie.sk/, which claims to allow
> you to use the Ultimate language packs with any version of Vista. I
> have no experience with this myself.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(Shell/User)
> Slattery_T@bls.gov
>
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