Hello, My current Windows Me operating system is in a language called Mandarin, I was wondering how do I change this so Windows Me will display english and not mandarin? Thank you.

Do you have the original Windows Me CD? And if you do is it the ENGLISH version? Also is it the KEYBOARD that is set to Mandarin, or the entire Operating system? If it is the entire operating system then I guarantee you have the Mandarin version of Windows Me and you need the English version - so if it was a "free" copy you got your hands on, you got what you deserved...and "paid" for. Sorry. But if it is just the keyboard, then all you need to do is goto the KEYBOARD control panel and select a new language for your keyboard setup.

Pong Lee: If the Me OS you have is a Putonghua based system, there is no internal method to switch to English. You'll have to get an English version. I live in Spain and originally had Me OS in Castellaņo, wanted to switch to English, and had to do a clean install of the English version once I had gotten it. Sorry Win PS To RJCE Support - Remember, this is the Internet not the USA. Lots of people have bought versions of software in languages other than English, but might want to have an English interface too. Don't be too hot to accuse people of software piracy just because their names look different than yours.

That's funny... I am well aware this is the internet. However actually buying a legit version of the software would actually say "International" or whatever language it was actually for. All of Microsoft's products do this. My post was also not based on the "name" either, so please do NOT insult my intelligence. Solution still is this: Buy an English version of the software. As I said...I rest my case, regardless of piracy or legit. p.s. - My original post was not meant to be an insult, but it was obvious that the version was the Mandarin version of WinMe regardless of how they got it. But even buying a copy of another language version of any software - you can't expect to be able to just go to English without buying the English license.

Two points to make for RJCE Support: 1) I saw nothing in the original post to suggest that the poster hadn't paid for the software. Why did you interject the issue into the reply. You wrote, 'so if it was a "free" copy you got your hands on, you got what you deserved...and "paid" for.' I'm not suggesting your post wasn't intelligent, maybe a little bigoted though. Think about it, but not worth fighting about. ;-) 2) As to whether users should have to pay for an entire new operating system just to change the language of the user interface, I'd say that's an open question. In fact I think I've read that MS has released a 2000(?)version where the UI can be toggled between languages.

Well, maybe my post came across more accusing than I meant it to be and for that I apologize. But, it has been my experience on free support forums like this one that many people come in asking questions very similar to that because of getting their hands on a version they didn't want in the first place. If they bought it, well, they should read more carefully because all software says what language it is in. And then if they didn't buy it, as I said... they got what they "paid" for. :) This is nothing against the original poster, Pong... It's just a fact in the case of piracy :) As for the second item... in some ways you are correct. But, why then should they sell different language versions if they are just going to add that capability? What it comes down to is what the end user prefers and they need to decide that before making a purchase (or download in the case of pirates). English is a known language around the world in about 85% of the world...which means there might be a demand for English versions in other countries.. but Microsoft probably already thought of that long ago and markets both local language and English language versions for that reason in those places. A better solution than selling a whole new operating system is for Microsoft to market small "upgrades" for just languages... which they do offer for free for Internet Explorer Menu and Dialog support. It would be worth it to them because more people would buy those rather than a whole new copy of Windows or Office or whatever. But - I am not on Microsoft's idea team so... :)

I purchased a Fujitsu-Siemens PC in Finland (where I live) which came with Windows Me pre-installed. I was told I could select the language for the OS (I wanted English as my Finnish is not so good). Upon starting the PC I was given the option to choose which language I wanted to install - default was Finnish. I was quite happy scrolling through the list of language options - Finnish, Swedish, Estonian, Russian, Hungarian, all european languages, etc, but guess what? NO ENGLISH! Why don't Microsoft produce all OS in English with an option to choose a local language where the product was bought? I agree with RJCE about paying for a language upgrade. If there was one for English I would buy it. One other problem I have now is that if I wanted to upgrade to XP for example, I could still not upgrade to an English version (according to MS)! I would have to buy the complete package not an upgrade!