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Changing T61p OS language
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:43 am
by SetTainte
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...
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:09 am
by GarryF
When I started up my T61P I think one of the first questions asked was location & language
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:10 am
by Ancient
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:16 am
by GarryF
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:05 am
by SetTainte
Excellent. It really is feature of Vista, not FuSi =)
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:09 pm
by exlax
You need to have Vista Ultimate for the language pack downloads.
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:15 pm
by barrywohl
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:09 pm
by leegaard
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
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:58 pm
by SetTainte
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...
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:39 pm
by andyP
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:25 pm
by GomJabbar
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:42 pm
by SetTainte
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!
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.