Papirex
Apr 23, 2007, 12:00 PM
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Re: [Lindawick] New Computer Windows Bilingual?
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I have never found any OS that is bi-lingual, and I don’t think that Vista in any country is bi-lingual. Whatever language your OS is in, it’s going to stay in that language. You may add a second language to any Windows computer, but it will only be useful when typing a Word document, Emails, etc. The OS will not be changed.
If you use MSN as your home page, you may change it from Spanish to English, but that’s it, the OS will remain in Spanish. I had similar problems to yours a few years ago. My Mexican wife’s computer had an English version of Windows 2000 Pro in it, and my computer had a Spanish version of XP Pro in it. It was difficult and time consuming for both of us, working in a non-native language. There was no way to change the languages in either of our computers.
My problems were solved when a friend nob sent me disks In English and Spanish with XP Pro on them, and permission to use his corporate license for them. I have read reports lately, as well as a couple of friends in the high tech field telling me to steer clear of Vista for a few years until all the bugs are worked out of it. Unless you buy the most expensive edition, you will not be able to access some of your own files using Vista. That may or may not be an issue, depending on what you use your personal computer for.
One of those friends that advised against using Vista at this time wants to buy a new backup computer with XP Pro in it. He has not been able to find one in any stores nob, all the new computers he has looked at have Vista in them. I sent him a link to Tiger Direct.com; they still have some new computers with XP in them.
You may order a new Dell computer here in México with an English operating system in it.
The only possible solution that I can think of to have a computer with both an English, and a Spanish OS in it would be to create a partition on your hard drive, or add a second hard drive, and buy and install a second OS on the second drive in the language you want. It will be like having two separate computers, and you will need to choose which OS you want to use on startup each time. You will not exactly “flip” between languages.
Sorry if this is bad news, but this has been my experience.
Rex
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved" - Victor Hugo
(This post was edited by RexC on Apr 23, 2007, 12:01 PM)
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