Buying laptop here, but wants chinese OS
 

my moms gonna buy a laptop here, but she needs to use chinese OS.
if i remember right, windows can switch the whole OS to display another language, but im not totally sure. and i think only certain versions of windows can do it, am i correct?

for vista and win7 only ultimate can do that.
i think if you buy pro you can change some settings in cmd to fix that though

never heard of it

please show me how

you download the language interface from windows update

so judging by the responses, if the laptop came with anything other than ultimate, it cant change languages?

Vista Enterprise can also switch languages

i got vista and i can switch.. go into control panel then clock, language, region then regional language options

then change your format, location, keyboards and languages, and under administrative change your locale

that switches a lot


go 1 step further and get the Language Interface Pack (LIP) and it will translate 80% on everything in the interface then theres multilngual user interface(MUI) which u need ultimate or enterprise and it will translate 100% but LIP is more than good enough

http://www.microsoft.com/unlimitedpo...grams/llp.mspx

here's a site that talks about it http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/25...ser-interface/

LIP is intended to allow developing countries use Windows - since they sell a Chinese version already, and offer a Chinese MUI, there won't be an LIP for Chinese.

i dunno that link says there is ???

http://www.froggie.sk/

works for win7 as well since so many of us have pro now and only ultimate supports language change

available for d/l on their website:
MUI for Vista 32 RTM
MUI for Vista 32 SP1
MUI for Vista 32 SP2
MUI for Vista 64 RTM
MUI for Vista 64 SP1
MUI for Vista 64 SP2
LIP for Vista 32
MUI for Seven 32 RTM
MUI for Seven 64 RTM

chinese is not listed as LIP, its listed as a purchase.