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| Thread ID: 90066 | 2008-05-22 02:40:00 | Windows OS in French | rumpty (2863) | Press F1 |
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| 671378 | 2008-05-22 02:40:00 | My daughter and her English husband have been living in France for a few years, so they have ended up with a locally supplied computer which has a French edition of XP. They manage with this quite well, but have a few problems developing with the OS, as they do. I suggested I could possibly help them out from here, using say TeamViewer to look over their computer, but they thought the French edition of the OS might defeat me, which it might! My question is, how deeply does the "Frenchness" of the OS go? Is the registry in French? Is "msconfig" or "regedit" in French? The list of Windows services? Thanks for any help. |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 671379 | 2008-05-22 02:42:00 | Everything I would say is in French. If the version of Windows is french | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 671380 | 2008-05-22 04:52:00 | You should be able to change the language or even add a second language. It would probably add a language icon down by the clock. www.microsoft.com |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 671381 | 2008-05-22 05:04:00 | id say only the text and maybe the descriptions may be in french but the file-names may still be the same english file names on any lingo you could try copying over english versions of the correct dll, exe files etc |
williamF (115) | ||
| 671382 | 2008-05-22 05:27:00 | You should be able to change the language or even add a second language. It would probably add a language icon down by the clock. www.microsoft.com I hadn't heard of XP MUI. Must do some Googling. |
rumpty (2863) | ||
| 671383 | 2008-05-22 07:59:00 | was quite a while ago but I've fixed a pc which had been brought from france......(did a korean and a chinese one too at other times)....... it's not that hard cause the menu's are still the same......IE: control panel is still at the same place on the start menu etc........and the icons are not different so..... if you are very familiar with pcs and their menus you'll find it all looks pretty familiar.........also soem french words are quite similar to english anyway and it's not too difficult............................(damn sight easier than chinese I can tell ya) |
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