Control Panel, Regional & Language Options, then you will need to click add, then go down the list for Spanish. 

Dilliebear,

 

Found this on eBay:  http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Microsoft-Windows-XP-Professional-Spanish-Edition_W0QQitemZ290146475763QQihZ019QQcategoryZ11941QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

And this:  http://www.translation.net/microsoft_os_work_spanishhome.html

 

Of course, as Ron noted, you would have to do a clean install of XP.  Also, since it is a Microsoft retail version you would lose the Dell Support software.  Don't know where your Spanish-speaking family is from but the new Brazil forum might be of interest to them.

 

Hope this info helps.

 

Tony

Rohe,

 

Yes, but Spanish-speaking families from Europe and South America are usually bi-lingual and can read and understand Portuguese better than English, n'est-ce pas?

 

Keep me straight, Ron.

 

Would make a lot of sense to have a Spanish-language forum, wouldn't it?  Dell Mexico site's Community Forum link, like those in other countries, sends you back here. Automatic translation by Google or other means leaves a lot to be desired.

 

Tony

Ron,

 

Talk about timing.  Had a service call today to install LangMaster English/Spanish software

and Wordpoint.  Thought I would mention it so Dilliebear might pass it on to the Spanish-speaking family.  Could not get LangMaster to work with Vista. It currently works on Windows 95 through Windows XP. It couldn't tell that Internet Explorer was installed and would try to install IE 5.5.   I was able to install WordPoint in Windows XP compatibility mode. 

 

Wordpoint was pretty neat.  Hover mouse over a word in a document, in a web page, on a Desktop shortcut or Window menu item, and it would pronounce it in English and list the Spanish translation(s) in a little popup Window.  WordPoint supports several languages.  Spanish, French, German, French, Hebrew (Yiddish?), and Polish.

 

If Dilliebear is interested, here's the link for LangMaster:  http://www.langmaster.com/LANGMaster/The_Team.htm

 

I'm sure you're right about the many variants of Spanish and French.  When we think of Spanish here in the Americas, Spain and Mexico come to mind.  French probably brings France and Canada (Quebecois and Acadian French) to mind.   Local Native Americans here in North Carolina speak a variant of Old English.  They "be gwynne" (going) to work.  Of course, they can read Beowulf without looking at the footnotes.

 

Tony