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jeffj
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Posted: 08:50pm 10 Aug 2017
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Hi I have a laptop with a chinese language windows 7 OS
As all the text is in chinese I cannot find the appropriate language in the languages list to change to English . If someone could tell me its say the 10 th down in the list I think I can fix it.
As its all in chinese I cant set up the internet to download an up date
Thanks in advance Jeff
 
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Should be this one 英语
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
 
jeffj
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Thanks for that.
I got that off the internet for "english" but of all the list there wasn't one resembling that maybe its Korean not Chinese
 
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Long shot,

But I wonder if the underlying list is always sorted in English.

If that was the case you may be able to find the first instance if English via another Win7 PC.

Looking at one of the Languages lists on this Win10 PC (That's a list not tiles),

The first entry for English is in position 104.

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Posted: 12:28pm 11 Aug 2017
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If all else fails you may be able to find someone that understands Chinese and is also computer literate.
A good place to try might be Chinese language classes at TAFE or your nearest university.
Cheers,  Tony.
 
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Take a pic of the list and take it down to your local chinese takeaway???

worth a shot

edit to add
doh- its a laptop, take the whole computer...
Edited by Boppa 2017-08-13
 
Madness

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I would be looking on Microsoft forums, bound to be multilingual people on there.
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
 
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Edited by yahoo2 2017-08-13
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jeffj
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thanks for yr help
I confirm that the language is korean
I found the characters for "English" there are a lot of them .Unfortunately it doesn't fix it
The 104 down doesn't either I will try and find someone with win 7 still on their computer.Jeff
 
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Windows 7RC I think First English 49 ? worth a try.

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jeffj
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Thanks Revlac
I tried that to no avail.I have found someone with a win7 laptop so will persevere with that next stop the computer shop
Jeff
 
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Still think your nearest TAFE or university might be your best bet.

Not many Aussies would know how to convert Windows to Mandarin, and not many Chinese would know how to convert it back.

You need someone who knows Chinese and is also an IT professional.Edited by Warpspeed 2017-08-16
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There is a lot of results from googling "how to change windows 7 from Korean to English"
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I dont think it is possible unless you have the fully loaded versions of windows, these have the language package that is swapped through windows update.

The cut down versions of windows (like home) use language interface packages (LIP)that are overlayed on a base language, that base language is part of the OS (not changeable)

A supplier may be able to load an OEM english W7 version
I'm confused, no wait... maybe I'm not...
 
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