E.g., I expect you'll have to re-install IE8 in English (and, perhaps, all of its updates), if you want IE in English, too. You may have to re-install some applications so they, too, display in English - it's the case of the ones that detect the OS language to determine the locale they should install in.

(clicking the download blue button will generate a pop-up with additional language selection.) If you read through, you'll find how to revert your changes (you'll need SP3 in the original base language of your installation) while straightforward, the procedure is not 100% risk free, as can been seen in some of the comments but the main challenge now is finding SP3 off-line installers for other (non-English) languages, since mom Microsoft has done its best to hide those links. Please also read this comment it's from the (somewhat old) article: The only way to completely display a different language is to reinstall Windows XP and select the correct language during installation You may notice that some elements are still in the original language. You can use a workaround to change the majority of the interface to your desired language. I don't wanna make a fresh-new install of my Windows XP, so I ask you: what other options do I have?

Then, I came across the EgyMore Language Pack for Windows XP, but guess what? It doesn't have English! I've found somewhere on internet that I can modify a registry value and install the Service Pack 3, however I have an updated XP with all the POSReady updates re-installing SP3 would overwrite the updated system files (and I don't want that). I mean, I already have everything in English (my mobile is in English, my TV is in English, my washing machine is in English, my microwave oven is in English, my Linux installation is in English, my Windows Server 2019 installation is in English) so why can't my XP be in English? Since then, I managed to move it from Hard Drive to Hard Drive, motherboard to motherboard, CPU to CPU and so on by just using a clone-disk utility.Īnyway, I moved to the UK in 2015 and I'd like to have my OS in English, 'cause it kinda feels weird and annoying to have it in Italian. I installed my XP copy many years ago, in 2002.

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