WinXP Home: How to switch fr. danish to english

[J&J]

My husband lived overseas (Denmark) and bought WinXp Home
overseas as well. It is a danish version, but now that he
lives in the USA with me -- we'd like to install an
English version, since I can't speak a lick of Danish but
he can comprehend English.

We did a clean-install of XP & reformatted the drive, and
when it asked us which language to use - we chose English,
but when it asked for the keyboard settings - we chose
Danish, so that he can use his alphabet when emailing his
family/friends. (We have a keyboard with the added danish
characters.)
But when we restarted the comp, everything was STILL in
danish!! I have heard that I can make my own windows
login & have English (USA) settings for it but it's not working! Yikes!

Is there ANY way to change the computer language from
Danish to English, or am I stuck with having to hunt him
down & translate everything on the screen? (I'm getting
peeved at the WinXP "Velkomme" screen. Thank god for
icons!) And no, I am NOT going to take formal classes to
learn Danish for the sake of being able to use XP. :-)

[Jason]

alrighty, here is how to make the magic happen. Go into the settings folder and select "Regional and Language Options" and in there should be all that you need as far as changing the language...


Jason

[J&J]

Nope, that doesn't work. I've got everything in WinXP Home regional settings set to English and it's all still in Danish.

But maybe if anyone knows something about a "Multilingual User Interface" pack (MUI) of some sort, contact me ASAP. I've done a ton of searches and most of the Microsoft pages keep mentioning this MUI thingy, but doesn't tell you where to get it, how to use it, etc. (Preferably a free download of this MUI thing...)

[liorean]

I believe there's lots of hard-coded language data in windows. I know that the Swedish version of Win2k have entirely different core executables and dlls than the English version of Win2k. This is because keeping the language fully modifyable would bloat the software extremely (and because Microsoft didn't see forward enough in time to realise that modularisation of language might be a good idea). Have a look at MacOS X for an example of how an OS can grow by half again it's size from just internationalisation. (Removing these language files for some languages might save you a LOT of space.)

[oracleguy]

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/faqs/MUIFaq.mspx

This should answer your questions. It looks like you have to add it onto an English version of Windows XP. And it looks like MUI isn't sold through retail either. Kinda silly.