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chiaa · Joined: 23 Aug 2003

I have a Korean laptop with windows XP home on it. Obviously it is in Korean. Now I have a copy of Windows XP Pro that is in English. If I do the upgrade installation instead of a total format, will the English take? I am trying to avoid losing the different programs that the manufacture gave with the laptop (such as their battery power options). But, if those programs are only in Korean (I havent figured how to get the English out of them yet) will I just get the ?????? bs (on these certain programs) when I install the English OS?

Or, does anyone know if the program that controls battery usuage settings/modes is actually built into Windows XP?

I am not worrying about the drivers, as I can go to the company's website (in English) and get em.

I factory presets the CPU at 800MHZ for some reason and it suppose to be easy to adjust it to the regular 1.6 MHZ but the wife (a korean speaker) is not computer savvy enough to help me out with this. No you cannot throttle the cpu on this one.

I got that new TG (Averatec) laptop. You get a lot of bang for your buck with it. I highly recommend it.

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chiaa · Joined: 23 Aug 2003

I am not thinking of having a dual OS system. I was asking that if I did an upgrade installation instead of a format installation, would English take the place as the primary language (I would think so because the "upgraded" OS is in English) and would this cause any problems with programs were installed with the orginal Korean OS but would still be on there because it would only be an update installation? I am not too concerned about loosing the free software that came with the system. I can easily find free replacements Very Happy

. But why do it if I dont have to...

I want to do a clean swipe of the whole system, but one of my two worries was answered (the battery stuff) but I still have to consider my other worry--the warranty that I have (two years). Dunno if that will kill the warranty. I am concerned about the hardware, not the OS or program help part of the warranty as I can honestly say I usually know more than the help desk tarts.

chiaa · Joined: 23 Aug 2003

Ahhh I just found something out as I just did a test run. I was thinking the old school way. Remember when you would go from say Windows 2000 to Windows XP and you had an upgrade choice or a clean install choice? The upgrade choice would allow you to save all your old files. i.e. they would be on the new OS. When going from XP home to XP Pro you dont have that choice of upgrading. You only have the choice to install.

Now I wonder, if I went down to Windows 2000 would it be a clean install or a downgrade? Meaning all my current files would transfer to the Windows 2000 OS. Then go from 2000 back up to XP which I then would be able to do the upgrade and keep my files.

Going to call the call center tomorrow and find out if I put a new OS on the lappy if that kills my warranty. If not, then all of this is moot Very Happy

keithinkorea · Joined: 17 Mar 2004

You cant install 2000 over XP in my experience. When I tried to do it it said that it wouldn't let me install 2000 over the obviously 'superior' XP. I had a cracked Korean version of XP but I wanted to install an English version of 2000 pro.

No problem I just reformatted the HD and it all worked fine. Personally I don't really like XP very much and find that 2000 pro does me fine. XP tries to do too much in my opinion and I'd rather use as little MS stuff as possible.