Switch from Japanese to English

"Don Anderson" <DonAnderson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, let me see if I have this right. I can not upgrade Japanese XP Home to
> English Vista Enterprise but if I can obtain Japanese Vista Enterprise I
> could upgrade his machine to that. Then he could switch from Japanese to
> English after Vista Enterprise is in place. Would I be correct in assuming
> that Enterprise (Japanese or English) has the language packs already
> included
> for language switching, as opposed to Ultimate where you need to download
> and
> install the pack for any language other than the language it shipped as?
>

Hello Don,

Just as with Ultimate, the MUI language packs have to be downloaded and
installed. They aren't included. They don't appear in Windows Update, you
need to contact your VL account person to obtain the download details.

Another alternative for your user could be to either set up a dual-boot on
his laptop if he has sufficient hard disk space, or to run the English
Enterprise in a virtual machine using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 for
instance.

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Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
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MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

"Paul Montgomery" <i.m.nonnymous@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I must be completely dense or in some kind of fog. My apologies. I
>had Vista Home locked in my mind for some reason and didn't even see
>XP until your post saying it would work.

>Nice work on your part and I'm glad you were able to answer the OP's
>questions.

No worries

--
Jane, not plain 64 bit enabled :-)
Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;-)
MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

In message <D13174A4-09F9-4705-99EB-26ABE45901CC@microsoft.com> Don
Anderson <DonAnderson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a user who arrived recently from Japan. His laptop has XP Home
>Japanese. The problem is that when mapping a drive the backslash changes to a
>Yen symbol so he can not map drives to the file server.

Going back to the root of this problem, XP/Japanese has no way to enter
a backslash? Is that true?

How was that not a show-stopper from day one?