Changing T61p OS language

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Changing T61p OS language

#1 Post by SetTainte » Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:43 am

I'm about to order T61p (NH05GGE).
I can customize for example the keyboard to FI/SWE one for some extra euros.

But how can I change the language of the OS?
It's Vista Ultimate.

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At least in FuSi you can change the OS language from user account control if you have Vista Ultimate :!:
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I don't speak such a good German that I'd like it to be the OS language :-p

Any other comment based on the laptop I'm about to order...
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#2 Post by GarryF » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:09 am

When I started up my T61P I think one of the first questions asked was location & language
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#3 Post by Ancient » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:10 am

Afaik you can download up to 26 lanuage packs if you have a vista license from the MS website which will let you change the language.
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#4 Post by GarryF » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:16 am

Ah yes, I've hidden those updates, having a quick look Finnish & Swedish are both listed for downloading if you need to.

I expect you could boot the machine up in English then go to windows update and get your language of choice.
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#5 Post by SetTainte » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:05 am

Excellent. It really is feature of Vista, not FuSi =)
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#6 Post by exlax » Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:09 pm

You need to have Vista Ultimate for the language pack downloads.
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#7 Post by barrywohl » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:15 pm

exlax wrote:You need to have Vista Ultimate for the language pack downloads.
How rinky-dink is that? My order includes Vista ultimate and just English....but really.

Vista Business users might well need an alternative language. What would it have cost Microsoft to enable that? I'm not usually a Microsoft flamer, but that seems lame to me.
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#8 Post by leegaard » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:09 pm

SetTainte wrote:Excellent. It really is feature of Vista, not FuSi =)
Actually. An english Win XP could also be MUI´ed.

MUI stands for Multilingual User Interface
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#9 Post by SetTainte » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:58 pm

Ok, now I'm about to pick up my new T61p tomorrow!

It is going to German UI at the beginning. Now I do speak some German but I have no clue what - and where - to do to change the language.

Would somebody please be so nice and give me some link to some page or just tell me what to do...
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#10 Post by andyP » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:39 pm

I believe you can choose English during the installation, otherwise:

Systemsteuerung / Regions & Sprachoptionen / Tastaturen und Sprache
control panel / Regions and Language options / Keyboard and Language

zur Auswahl steht:
choices are:

a) Sprache - installieren
install - language
b) Sprache auswählen (a german machine offers English or German)
choose language

As another member stated you can download other languages as updates.
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#11 Post by GomJabbar » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:25 pm

From reading the following, it appears you can change language packs *IF* you have Vista Ultimate.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925471/en-us

So I am going to assume, you cannot change the language of Vista unless you have the Ultimate version.
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#12 Post by SetTainte » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:42 pm

andyP wrote:I believe you can choose English during the installation, otherwise:

Systemsteuerung / Regions & Sprachoptionen / Tastaturen und Sprache
control panel / Regions and Language options / Keyboard and Language

zur Auswahl steht:
choices are:

a) Sprache - installieren
install - language
b) Sprache auswählen (a german machine offers English or German)
choose language

As another member stated you can download other languages as updates.
Thanks man! :D
GomJabbar wrote:From reading the following, it appears you can change language packs *IF* you have Vista Ultimate.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925471/en-us

So I am going to assume, you cannot change the language of Vista unless you have the Ultimate version.
I know. It is Ultimate like I said at the first post... :)
Thanks fot the link.
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