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Hello,
I have purchsed a Sony Vaio laptop from Germany with windows vista home edition installed. I brought it to India.
The problem is that the windows is in German language and I cannot convert it to English. Please suggest a solution.
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Hi Tyacoon Nexus,
Vistalizator is a legal, free program which offers the real Windows language packs. It works on all versions of vista. Choose the version for your edition of vista here: http://www.froggie.sk/download.html (each download includes all Windows supported languages)
I am sorry but you can not change Languages with Vista Home Premium using Microsoft Language Packs.
You need Vista Ultimate or Enterprise to do that.
Use 3rd Party software at your own risk.
**Language change:**
**[http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/35a1b021-d96c-49a5-8d8f-5e9d64ab5ecc1033.mspx](http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/35a1b021-d96c-49a5-8d8f-5e9d64ab5ecc1033.mspx)**
“How do I get additional Language files?”
**[http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/5ecc6229-00d6-4a82-9364-b86068d2d23f1033.mspx](http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/5ecc6229-00d6-4a82-9364-b86068d2d23f1033.mspx)** ****
**“Change the Country or region Setting”**
1. To change your German Language Vista Operating System to English, you will have to buy a German Vista Upgrade Ultimate Disk/Licence.
Then download the English Language Pack through Windows Update.
The Upgrade to Vista Ultimate has to be done in the original Language Vista came in.
2. Your other Option is to buy a FULL version of English Vista Operating System you want, and do a clean install.
3. Try and get a Recovery disk from the Manufacturer in the required Language,
Cheers.
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Mick Murphy - Microsoft Partner
I just want to say THANK YOU for this suggestion. Vistalizator works on Vista Home Basic (SP2 - 32 bit) also! It's a wonderful program that helped me to finaly get my computer on English.
All I had to do is download Vistalizator from here and my desired language pack from this link.
Install the software and then find your downloaded language pack. Let it load in through the Vistalizator and after restart, you've got yourself a Vista on English :) Further details on instalation can be seen here: http://www.froggie.sk/usage.html
Good luck all :)
Vistalizator DOES work on Vista Home Premium.
Hello,
Thanks for your support. I got it fixed using Vistalizator.