[Thinkpad] Spanish XP on A30?

[Jon Etkins]

Bruce Markowitz wrote:
> I have a customer who wants to take an A30 back to Argentina with Spanish
> XP. Is there any way to do this from an "English" recovery CD, or do I need
> Spanish recovery CD's?
> I did change the language in Control panel, but all that seemed to do is
> crash the system. Everything was still in English.

Setting the locale only affects a small subset of the OS; to get a full Spanish version you'd need the Spanish XP installation or recovery media.  XP (and some other Microsoft products) come in various National Language variants, each of which has its own installation media.

However, in the absence of Spanish installation or recovery media, you may be able to get away with the Windows XP Multilingual User Interface Pack, available through corporate licensing or via a Technet Plus (or probably MSDN) subscription.  See http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/faqs/MUIFaq.mspx


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