How do I change the language from russian to english in windows xp?
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at
9:33 pm
I have installed a russian copy of windows XP on my desktop, and I can't seem to change the language of the GUI to the English language... I got ALL of the programs to install and run in english, but I can't get windows to change the language that it is using... I have already tried to change it in the regional settings and I also tried installing the MUI... Nothing works... What should I do?
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Unfortunately, you can NOT use any Control Panel options – it’s because you have real Russian version of XP and not English version with Russian MUI installed.
By the way there is no such thing as _English_ MUI – it’s why this way did not help you.
No solution – only installation – from scratch – another, English version of Windows ‘killing’ that Russian XP – and thus you will have to install again all the programs on that brand new Windows installation
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For people who answered – some of your advices were about _typing_ (Keyboard setup), some – about system code page (affects display of national letters in the menus of the programs), some – regional setting for say date/time and numeric formats -
nothing related to the question, sorry!
You can learn more about International features of MS Windows (including all things mentioned in other answers here) on the site devoted to Russian/Cyrillic (but it’s the same for any other language, too):
http://WinRus.com
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You can use regional and language settings from control panel to solve the problem. Choose the language English US
press start menu
click run
type in region and laguange
a box should appear
the then change langauge and such
I hope i helped
Start Menu > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options >
Regional Options
Use the drop down menu and select "English (United States)"
All of the fields should automatically fill in the US Standards.
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install the english version..
have a friend the screen in russian for you and
go to start,
control panel
date ,time, language, regional seting
regional and language options
select language
details
select default language to english usa
reboot