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Got as a gift a Spanish version XP, but How do i convert this to English version? Rate Topic: -----

#1 User is offline   ideas 

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 11:09 AM

a friend of mine got me a PC with windows xp pro Spanish version fully activated so i do not want to reformat it or run xp over it again, is there a way to convert this to a English version?

i've tried control panel, region and language and changed all settings to eglish united states yet still in spanish..

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 02:12 PM

No, this is a localized version of the OS. You can change English versions (via MUI packs) to load other languages, but not the other way around (spanish will always be spanish). This changes in Vista (the whole OS is language neutral), but in XP/2003 and other downlevel clients, localized versions are not able to be changed.

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 02:46 PM

(A question to those who are more knowledgeable, like cluberti)
Shouldn't you legally be able to download an English disc of the same type (i.e. XP Pro OEM if that's what's preinstalled), then use that legally-obtained code to activate the English version? I mean, CD keys aren't language specific... that I'm aware of...?

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 02:49 PM

Your Spanish key should work on English version

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 03:56 PM

thank you but which MUI pack should i download and use?

Arabic (ARA)
Chinese (Simplified) (CHS)
Chinese (Traditional) (CHT)
Czech (CSY)
Danish (DAN)
Dutch (NLD)
Finnish (FIN)
French (FRA)
German (DEU)
Greek (ELL)
Hebrew (HEB)
Hungarian (HUN)
Italian (ITA)
Japanese (Japan) (JPN)
Korean (KOR)
Norwegian (Bokmål) (NOR)
Polish (PLK)
Portuguese (Brazil) (PTB)
Portuguese (Portugal) (PTG)
Russian (RUS)
Slovak (SKY)
Slovenian (SLV)
Spanish (ESN)
Swedish (SVE)
Turkish (TRK)


or where do i download the correct MUI Pack?
i've tried the Spanish ( ESN ), says language is different from what am trying to update

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 05:31 PM

View PostVolatus, on Apr 1 2008, 10:46 PM, said:

(A question to those who are more knowledgeable, like cluberti)
Shouldn't you legally be able to download an English disc of the same type ?

If only there was such thing as a "legally downloaded XP". :rolleyes:

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 09:37 PM

View PostPonch, on Apr 1 2008, 06:31 PM, said:

If only there was such thing as a "legally downloaded XP". :rolleyes:
If you've got an Open license or MSDN sub, there is such a thing :).

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Posted 01 April 2008 - 10:36 PM

Well, on that same note, all downloads of XP are legal, far as I can tell. It's the key (license) they may or may not use (depending on if the creator decided to pull an "unattended" on the illegal key), that would be illegal if you chose to use it.

As for me, I'm using a legal copy of XP installed from a downloaded XP disc because I didn't have the OEM install CD. So I kinda think that makes it legal... but then again I didn't pour (sp?) over the over-worded and overly-ridiculous EULA to find out. =\

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Posted 02 April 2008 - 09:50 AM

View PostPonch, on Apr 1 2008, 06:31 PM, said:

View PostVolatus, on Apr 1 2008, 10:46 PM, said:

(A question to those who are more knowledgeable, like cluberti)
Shouldn't you legally be able to download an English disc of the same type ?

If only there was such thing as a "legally downloaded XP". :rolleyes:


Just wait for when Steam starts selling Windows.... won't that be scary?

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