Windows Me – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Tue, 04 Oct 2022 22:27:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 Switching Microsoft Windows and Office to English https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/20/switching-microsoft-windows-and-office-to-english/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/20/switching-microsoft-windows-and-office-to-english/#respond Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:40:36 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/switching-microsoft-windows-and-office-to-english At my workplace, all the computers are in German.  I do not read German.  I get by by remembering what buttons were where in the Windows version.  Luckily, I managed to switch the language to English.

Switching the Language for Windows

To do this, go to the Control Panel and open the Regional and Language Options.  This might be hard to do when Windows is in a different language so just look for the icon that has a globe on it.  Depending on the version of Windows, switching the language may not be possible.  And also, different versions of Windows put these buttons in different places within the Language Options.  Click around the tabs, and there should be a drop down box for you to change the language.  Once that’s done, restart the computer.

Switching the Language for Office

Hopefully switching the language for Windows worked, because it would really help for this part, although it isn’t necessary.  Not every version of Office supports changing languages.  It depends on the version that was installed.  Go to the Start Menu, find Microsoft Office, and then Microsoft Office Tools.  Under there, there should be an icon for Language Settings.  The icon has a globe and an A on it under Windows 7.  Open it and change the language.

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Link: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/124000 (second post)

And since it’s been a while since I had burned a DVD, I couldn’t quite remember what to do with the VIDEO_TS folder that I got.  After the files on the DVD have been copied on the hard drive, then you can follow whatever instructions you usually follow to get those files to work as a playable DVD

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