[Ludwig Von Cookie Koopa]

Okay so I was browsing the last versions of what to install in win98. I decided to install office 2002 somebody gave me. The problem is that my computer is in Spanish. Everything is spanish,

like for example

Nuevo = New
Carpeta = NEw Folder
Enviar a = Send to ( floppy A etc etc )


It is driving me nuts. I know I could install win98 again but that is stupid since the Word installation
changed everything on it's own. I have a win98 disc, and I don't mind going into the regsiteries.

I have tried Regional Settings but all it does, is just display the langauge "Ingles" . I have tried going
into Word itself, and it does nothing to change anything.

I do not want to install any global thingy from Microsoft official site. I just want to change my computer language back to English.

[Multibooter]

Ludwig Von Cookie Koopa, on Nov 2 2009, 10:57 AM, said:

I just want to change my computer language back to English.

You probably have a major system corruption, not just a language problem. Your installation of Spanish Office 2002 probably replaced a couple of 100 English DLLs with Spanish DLLs. I suspect that other software which looks for shared English DLLs is impacted also and may not function properly. In Office you probably have a Spanish spell checker now, to check your Spanish spelling. How does Internet Explorer appear? I have never done what you did, so my help can only be very limited.

The easiest and only clean solution is to restore \Windows\ , \Program Files\ and \Office\ to as they were before you installed Spanish Office 2002.

If you don't have such a backup, maybe uninstalling Spanish Office 2002 and then installing the corresponding English Office 2002 version might undo most of the damage. You should make a complete system backup before any further fiddling.

To clearly identify what has changed by your installation of Spanish Office on top of English Win98 one would have to repeat your installation, with the same installation options, make backups before and after the installation, then compare the 2 registries and make a binary compare of all files in \Program Files\ and \Windows\ before and after.

This post has been edited by Multibooter: 03 November 2009 - 07:38 PM

[dencorso]

Just a long shot: search for MFC42LOC.DLL and, if found, rename it to MFC42LOC_DLL.BAD. Reboot.