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   From: monty@home.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:05:54 -0700 (PDT), Marcus   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 18 mar, 10:52, "Lynsey Doyle"  wrote:   
   >> "Marcus"  a crit dans le message de groupe de   
   >> discussion :   
   >> e3786b0b-13ef-46c9-8f72-581b93c4d...@p3g2000vbv.googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >> > I have an english version of Windows XP pro on which I have installed   
   >> > a norwegian language pack.   
   >>   
   >> > I cannot change the UI language to norwegian however. This is because   
   >> > the combobox in the "Control Panel"->"Regional and Language Options"-   
   >> >>Languages->"Language used in menus and dialogs" is not visible.   
   >>   
   >> > I have to install another arbitrary language so I have 2 installed   
   >> > language packs, to get the combobox visible. I can then from the   
   >> > combobox select norwegian as "Language used in menus and dialogs".   
   >>   
   >> > Question #1:   
   >> > Do I really have to install >1 language packs in order to change UI   
   >> > language in Windows?   
   >>   
   >> I believe so but once you've installed and selected it, you can get rid   
   >> of the other one(s)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> > Question #2:   
   >> > How do I change back to english as Windows UI language? English is   
   >> > not   
   >> > selectable in the combobox at "Language used in menus and dialogs".   
   >> > But it is the initial language of my XP installation. I would like to   
   >> > be able to easily switch between english and norwegian in some way.   
   >>   
   >> Again I think you have to have more than one language installed then a   
   >> 'language bar' will appear on the taskbar from where you can easily   
   >> change the language.   
   >   
   >Thanks for answering!   
   >   
   >Regarding #2: AFAIK selecting language from the language bar only   
   >changes the locale (that is the input language and the culture), not   
   >the UI language.   
   >   
   >Maybe there is some way of enable/disable a language pack, to switch   
   >between the initial language of the XP installation and norwegian? I   
   >have tried using the muisetup.exe for this. So I launched muisetup and   
   >from there I unchecked norwegian. After clicking OK, I was prompted to   
   >reboot. Did that and voila - I enjoyed an english UI. The norwegian   
   >language pack was still installed (looked in Add or Remove Programs).   
   >The weird thing is that the checkbox was not present any more when I   
   >started up muisetup.exe to check the norwegian checkbox again (to get   
   >back to norwegian).   
   >   
   More out of curiosity than any other reason, I did a Google search for   
   "changing UI language XP".  I thought this item might be relevant:   
      
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688178   
      
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