![]() ![]() I too have a laptop, but face with the possible diasaters above I decided to leave the OS as German. Next, make sure your laptop came with a "Recovery CD" so that if it all goes tits up you can revert back (theorticaly) to how it all used to be. Make sure you download these and keep them somewhere safe. #Windows xp hungarian language pack driversMost manufactors run websites with copies of the drivers hanging around somewhere. #Windows xp hungarian language pack installNext you need to know if you can install all the drivers needed to get this laptop working. Ask your freindly company Admin if he has such a CD. This does not apply to a "Mutli Volume" install of XP. Here I am and this is the specifation of the computer I now exist on." Trouble is, that if this changes too much from the original time it was registered, ie if your hardware setup is different in more than three ways, it might start to complain. The means it phones home and says "Heyyywweeee. If you borrow a version of XP you may find it needs to activated after a certain lenght of time. You have to be carefull on two counts here. Hungarian version of Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 Serial: XG6JQ-RKKPK-K6X7X-9WGKD-RVBJY. If you have the German XP cd, with all the holograms and license stuff on it, perhaps Microsoft would swap it for you? Yeah, a long shot I know. Windows, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional, SP2, Service Pack 2, x86, 32-bit, Hungarian, Microsoft. Also bear in mind that if you bought the laptop with everything preinstalled that you'll have the 'fun' of having to locate and install all the drivers for bloody everything. One bit of advice, I would do (or get a techy friend to do) a total format of the harddrive and install English XP from scratch rather than install over the German one. Borrowed a friends English XP CD, and that was that. Can't you borrow windows XP from someone who has a version WITH a license key? I got a DEll PC, and it was all preinstalled in bloody German, with loads of crap unwanted software. I dunno about this 'buying' software business though. Installing English XP over the German one, or creating a partition and having a dual boot system, which would be pointless (unless you are a sadist who actually wants to see foul german words on your machine from time to time). I think you might have only two options really. ![]()
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