re: Question about 'Use Multiple Languages on a Single System'
Sunday, October 27, 2002 at 1:03 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by walter harris
(1 messages posted)
hello,
my name is walter and i have a problem, i mistakedly installed german on my computer,
some of my programs come up in german and i don't want that. i thought that if i
installed it that the german pages would show up in english, since then i have figued
out how to display a page in english. could you please help, nero burning rom is
one of the programs. i am running windwos xp professional. thank you for your time.
walter
On Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 12:48 pm, Iain wrote:
>Hello Chris. I had this problem when I did a fresh install of IE6.0 just to test
>IEradicator. My OS is in French and when I had finished I had menus partly in French
>partly in English.
>
>It seems as if when you use an English version of IE that you connect to the English
>language up-date site, and if it is in French to the French up-date site. So if
you
>are using an English version of IE you will need to uninstall IE 'as I had to do)
>and re-install in German. Then do all of your up-dates again.
>
>To do this effectively you can either download the full IE6.0 into your download
>area or get a copy on a CD-ROM from your ISP or a Computer Shop. (This is the better
>option as you have a permanent copy; in case something goes wrong!) I safeguard
myself
>by running Opera 6.03 at the same time, and I consider this to be a better browser
>anyway BUT there IS a problem when it comes to up-dating from MS so I use IE just
>for up-dates.) (So download and install Opera 6.03 first so you can still get online.)
>
>Then run IEradicator to remove ALL trace of IE6.0 AND IE 5.5 (except the IE 5.5
.cab
>files which it cannot find, IF they are ON your HDD and not on a CD-ROM) When all
>is clean you can check the registry with RegCleaner 4.3 from www.jv16.org , run
CleanDisk,
>ScanDisk and Defrag (you are using "new defrag" from Me? It is 10 times faster than
>the one in '98) and then install IE6.0 and defrag again to bed the program in properly.
>
>Then go to the German automatic Windows Up-Date site (which it ... should ... find
>automatically, now that your IE is in German again) (It is already! I hope not!)
>and fully up-date your system!
>
>By the way, the www.microsoftupdates.com should be http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
>and up-dates from here should install automatically in your language. I think you
>might just have added an update manually from microsoft updates and that is it THAT
>which caused the problem. So you might be able to do: C:\>scanr
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