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[linguo]

I bought Windows 7 Ultimate and installed it on our HP laptop, which was originally purchased in Korea (afaik, only relevant for the keyboard and power cord).

I thought it would allow my husband (Korean) to log in and use his desktop in Korean while I can log in in English. It sort of does. But, while logged in to his desktop, set to Korean, Korean banking and shopping sites still give him the character gibberish so that he can't make any transactions.

I talked to the people at MS before I bought Ultimate with exactly this concern, and they pretty much said, "We don't know." So, I took the risk and bought it. Waste of money.

I'm more computer literate than he is, and I usually fix problems and maintain our computers, so I'm a little wary of having the operating system in Korean. I don't see any way around it, though. (I can read quite a bit of Korean, but not enough to feel comfortable going through an install in Korean.)

I still have the backup CDs from the Korean version of Vista that was sold on it. That version allowed choosing between Korean and English on install.

Anyone ever heard of dual-booting two versions of Windows 7 with different languages (or English 7 with Korean Vista)? This would allow us to travel with just one laptop. I have seen a few forums online that mention dual-booting the same version, and that two keys are needed. Few other details.

Alternatively, is there a way to do the Korean language boot from a CD or an external hard drive? I know you can do that in Linux, but never read about doing it in Windows. We only need the capabilities occasionally, so it would be a shame to waste half our computer space on this.

Also, how do I determine how much space I would need to do this?

Appreciate any help or ideas anyone has.

P.S. I sort of hate this laptop, which was given to us by a relative, so if I just need to convert it back to Korean, so be it. I'll get a new one for myself. An expensive solution, though.

[Underwaterbob]

When using Internet Explorer on a Korean website displaying gibberish, click on the "view" menu, then "encoding" and change it to Korean. That should turn the gibberish into Korean.

[ed]

setting up dual boot OS's can be done but time consuming.

you have to partition space then normal setupof the OS in the partitioned space.

your husband does internet banking so you need to do what underwater said but also the website will download a program to be run on your computer which will read gibberish if not setup.

go to control panel regional and language options advanced and set language for nonuni to korean then click the apply box on the page then click the apply at the bottom.

reboot and it should be set up.

you may have to use your OS cd for this and you may have to repeat underwater steps again.

[linguo]

OK, thanks. I will try this. I have looked at the language options before, but apparently never got the right one.

[languistic]

Win 7 Ult can boot into any language that has been installed. You can boot into Korean or English, making the OS that language for that session.

[Binch Lover]

Is your version of W7 Ultimate English or Korean?

I installed the Korean version, and then changed the language over to English using the language packs precisely because I wanted to avoid the problem that the OP mentioned. Almost everything (99%) on my computer is now in English, but anything in Korea shows up flawlessly.