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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject: Can I change my WinXP from Korean to English? |
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| Is there any way I change XP to English without using the original CD? Is there any installation file I can download to do this? |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Can I change my WinXP from Korean to English? |
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| Is there any way I change XP to English without using the original CD? Is there any installation file I can download to do this? |
Hmm......I don't believe there is. You'll have to get a copy of English XP, fully format the drive, then install the fresh English XP onto the harddrive.
Sorry man... |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| And don't forget the drivers ..... took me a while to get drivers re-installed on laptop, I guess a dekstop should be easier with less proprietary stuff. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh well. Looks look I'm stuck with it. Cheers for the heads up though. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: Re: Can I change my WinXP from Korean to English? |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
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| Is there any way I change XP to English without using the original CD? Is there any installation file I can download to do this? |
Hmm......I don't believe there is. You'll have to get a copy of English XP, fully format the drive, then install the fresh English XP onto the harddrive.
Sorry man... |
Not precisely. If you have a Windows disk, you can do a language change without wiping out all your data. But, yeah, you do need a disk. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: Can I change my WinXP from Korean to English? |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| cj1976 wrote: |
| Is there any way I change XP to English without using the original CD? Is there any installation file I can download to do this? |
Hmm......I don't believe there is. You'll have to get a copy of English XP, fully format the drive, then install the fresh English XP onto the harddrive.
Sorry man... |
Not precisely. If you have a Windows disk, you can do a language change without wiping out all your data. But, yeah, you do need a disk. |
 really? I have never seen a language option on my home or professional editions. I guess maybe they only added that feature to the OS's that were printed in a different language? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| You cannot change the entire language an OS was written in. If you have English XP, you cannot change that to Korean XP. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| That's not precisely what I was talking about. I switched from English to Korean by doing, I think, a repair install with a Korean XP cd. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I should add that I wasn't specifically trying to change the language on the wife's computer, I was trying to re-install Windows cleanly. However, a couple menus in, all the choices switched over to Korean and I just kept selecting the default choice from then on out whenever it gave me a choice. Anyway, when Windows finally started up again, all my old icons were still there, so I had to do some serious deletion of, shall we say, questionable, material. But, I'll check when I get home. There does exist the possibility that I hallucinated the whole thing. |
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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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You can add an asian language pack to an english OS. This will support chinese/japanese and korean character inputs.
What is the name of your notebook and model number? If you're trying to install an english OS on it, it can still work provided that the model is supported in other countries. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| THIS should answer all of your language issue for your computer. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| jazblanc77 wrote: |
| THIS should answer all of your language issue for your computer. |
My laptop sticky addresses this issue although MS seems to have gone and changed all the links to their knowledge base and now the link in my sticky is broken. Gosh, thanks Microsoft. From the tone of the link you posted, I get the feeling the poster has been down the same road as I. I've had an argument with some people here who are convinced there's some magical button on their Korean install of XP that will change it to English. No amount of reasoning can convince them MS just doesn't put all the languages on earth on one install CD.
I like to liken it to region codes on DVDs. If MS makes a Thai language only version, they can sell it more cheaply in Thailand. Thais can't pay two months salary for XP. But if you could import Thai versions of XP and just press a button to switch it to English, computer dealers in North America would quickly do that.
As my sticky warns, if you buy a computer in Korea, ask for the English OS beforehand. |
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