Changing Languages (English to Spanish)

[mmarable]

I'm hoping someone might have some ideas here for me to try.

A friend of ours bought a laptop from a big chain store. It has the English version of Windows XP (Home Edition I think), but the primary user speaks Spanish as their first language and very little English.

Being "the guy who works in IT" they've asked me if there is any way of switching the language over to Spanish. Now, in the corporate world I could just install the Spanish MUI and switch it over, but I'm guessing that the laptop came with XP Home on it. I have not seen the laptop itself yet, but I'm expecting the worst.

I don't think that there's much that can be done with the Home version other than buying the Spanish language version and reinstalling.

Does anyone have any ideas or options that I can try?

Thanks

Mike

[Ponch]

I don't think that there's much that can be done with the Home version other than buying the Spanish language version and reinstalling.

You gave the answer.

[cluberti]

Unless you're running XP Professional, have a premier contract, and thus access to the spanish MUIs, no, you cannot change it (at all on Home).

Buy the spanish version, save yourself and the user the trouble of figuring this out the hard way.