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Setting up a foriegn language in Win98

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by guitarcade

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I am trying to set up a computer's OS (Win98) to read in Spanish. I set the regional settings and keyboeard settings correctly in the control panel but the GUI is still all English. I know this sounds stupid, but can this even be done?

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by dmiles

It could be possible if you have the Plug-In to support the language and it is installed
You can return to SEUP of the Operating system and when you install Internet Explorer choose the custom install and select the language from list,also you candownload the language from the Windows Update site and install the plug-in

by thechas

You can download language packs for Internet explorer. I haven't tried them to see if they also affect the rest of the GUI.

As closely as things are tied in, they might.

The regional and keyboard settings as you found out do not affect the GUI. The keyboard settings only remap the keyboard to the "standard" layout for that language.

It appears that Microsoft only ships the GUI in the "native" language for each region.
So, to get a true Spanish GUI, you would need a Windows CD for the a region where Spanish is the default language.

Of course, all of the install screens would be in Spanish too!

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