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Help - I've inherited a laptop set up in German!
Many & varied apologies for asking this in such b-a-s-i-c terms (am a bit of
a techno-retard, a fact of which I am not very proud...) ....but I've just been given a hand-me-down lap top which is running on Windows 98 - entriely in German. Tragically, I have about a 10-word German vocab (and no, I won't provide it for you to laugh at!) I've been able to guess my way into what I've fairly sure is the languages/display section (a challenge) and I'm at a point where it's letting me choose between English (Australien) and Deutsche so I think I'm on thr right track... but it won't let me change the default language without a CDROM (and I know it wants CDROM because fortunately the words is the same for both languages! My firends don't have the relevant CDROMs any more/with them - they're fresh off the plane, so to speak & didn't bother bringing such (useful) trivia with them. Can anyone help me by letting me know what I need to get hold of (what's the name of the CDROM) and if this likely to be impossible? - in English please!! I don't think I'll be able to get downloads onto the laptop beucase it's not net connected (and is effectively unusable to me for now!). Thanks a million in advance, Anna |
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Help - I've inherited a laptop set up in German!
Find a friend with a W98 CD and re-install. Someone must still have it- many
people still use and like it. "Ron Badour" wrote in message ... You cannot switch languages--you must install an English version of W98 that will work on the laptop. Unfortunately, you probably will not be able to find a CD that is custom made for the laptop so that leaves finding and trying a retail version of W98, seeing if you can find the right drivers for the hardware and then hoping it will work. Personally, I'd ask them if they want the machine back or I would get rid of it since there is little sense in investing money in a laptop that old and not even knowing if it will work. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "thatfrenchgal" that french wrote in message ... Many & varied apologies for asking this in such b-a-s-i-c terms (am a bit of a techno-retard, a fact of which I am not very proud...) ...but I've just been given a hand-me-down lap top which is running on Windows 98 - entriely in German. Tragically, I have about a 10-word German vocab (and no, I won't provide it for you to laugh at!) I've been able to guess my way into what I've fairly sure is the languages/display section (a challenge) and I'm at a point where it's letting me choose between English (Australien) and Deutsche so I think I'm on thr right track... but it won't let me change the default language without a CDROM (and I know it wants CDROM because fortunately the words is the same for both languages! My firends don't have the relevant CDROMs any more/with them - they're fresh off the plane, so to speak & didn't bother bringing such (useful) trivia with them. Can anyone help me by letting me know what I need to get hold of (what's the name of the CDROM) and if this likely to be impossible? - in English please!! I don't think I'll be able to get downloads onto the laptop beucase it's not net connected (and is effectively unusable to me for now!). Thanks a million in advance, Anna |
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Help - I've inherited a laptop set up in German!
There seem to be torrent downloads available- not that I'm advocating piracy
of course. But then you'd just be replacing a licenced copy anyway. "Mark Dunn" wrote in message ... Find a friend with a W98 CD and re-install. Someone must still have it- many people still use and like it. "Ron Badour" wrote in message ... You cannot switch languages--you must install an English version of W98 that will work on the laptop. Unfortunately, you probably will not be able to find a CD that is custom made for the laptop so that leaves finding and trying a retail version of W98, seeing if you can find the right drivers for the hardware and then hoping it will work. Personally, I'd ask them if they want the machine back or I would get rid of it since there is little sense in investing money in a laptop that old and not even knowing if it will work. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "thatfrenchgal" that french wrote in message ... Many & varied apologies for asking this in such b-a-s-i-c terms (am a bit of a techno-retard, a fact of which I am not very proud...) ...but I've just been given a hand-me-down lap top which is running on Windows 98 - entriely in German. Tragically, I have about a 10-word German vocab (and no, I won't provide it for you to laugh at!) I've been able to guess my way into what I've fairly sure is the languages/display section (a challenge) and I'm at a point where it's letting me choose between English (Australien) and Deutsche so I think I'm on thr right track... but it won't let me change the default language without a CDROM (and I know it wants CDROM because fortunately the words is the same for both languages! My firends don't have the relevant CDROMs any more/with them - they're fresh off the plane, so to speak & didn't bother bringing such (useful) trivia with them. Can anyone help me by letting me know what I need to get hold of (what's the name of the CDROM) and if this likely to be impossible? - in English please!! I don't think I'll be able to get downloads onto the laptop beucase it's not net connected (and is effectively unusable to me for now!). Thanks a million in advance, Anna |
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