Spanish Windows 7 - What are my options?

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Dairyxox

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#129514 18-Sep-2013 13:01

Hi All,

I've got a friend who brought a Windows 7 computer in Chile, it came with genuine windows 7 in Spanish.

Shes keen to get it working in English, and i'm not sure where to begin. What options are there?

Can they:
1. Load a windows language localization patch?
2. Simply set windows 7 to English without any patch? How?
3. Reload windows 7 using an English OEM disc and use their current Window 7 product key on the bottom of the notebook

or Finally
4. Purchase a whole new windows 7 in English, AND reload it onto the notebook pc.

Or something else?

billgates

4705 posts

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#898615 19-Sep-2013 17:17

Try the below method and see if it works.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-the-display-language

Do whatever you want to do man.

haywardb

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#904698 29-Sep-2013 18:42

I had a friend who had a laptop with this problem and I used a programed call Vistalizator.

http://www.froggie.sk

Specs from the web site:

Did you buy a Windows laptop from abroad and want it to talk to you in your mother tongue?

Try Vistalizator - this tool allows you to change display language in Windows editions other than (officially supported) Ultimate, like Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium and Business/Professional.

Vistalizator overrides the limit of one MUI language on non-Ultimate Windows editions.

Features

Works in 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista/Windows 7
Change Windows display language in less than 5 minutes! (Express installation mode)
Uses official Microsoft Windows language packs
You can install all 36 MUI languages and switch between them easily
You can install 55 Windows Vista LIP languages on top of specific MUI languages
You can install 59 Windows 7 LIP languages on top of specific MUI languages
Compatible with Vista Service Pack 1/2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1
User Account Control (UAC) compliant - prompts for administrative privileges
Windows Speech Recognition works with all supported languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish

Jemahl

33 posts

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#904734 29-Sep-2013 20:06

5. Use this as an opportunity to learn a foreign language!