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zatoichi50

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October 9th, 2007 08:00

windows XP defaults to japanese language when installing new software

greetings, i have a dell dimension 4550 running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600.  i don't know what i did, but the problem i have is that when i try to install new software (NERO 7), the set up program goes to japansese language (which i don't understand) so i can't complete the install.  also my dvd software on the computer (interactual player 2.0) also shows prompts & commands in japanese.  the other software on my computer all run properly in english.  any suggestions on how to fix this?

kjharris

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October 9th, 2007 13:00

Where did you get this Nero 7 from? Is it a multilanguage version--if so there should be a screen when you start the installation to select the language you want. Is it possibly a Japanese version? I once downloaded a program that turned out to be a German version--worked fine but had to ask someone to translate some of the commands.

Ken

zatoichi50

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October 16th, 2007 06:00

ken, thanks for the reply.  it's an english version of NERO that came with a pioneer dvd burner drive i bought. 
 
i found a solution as follows.  it seems i set Japanese for "Language for non-Unicode programs". This particular option will make it possible to run Japanese software as well as type Japanese almost anywhere including filenames, notepad, etc. Of course some programs don't support Japanese.

There are two problems with this setting though. One is aesthetic, the default system font becomes a font that supports Japanese and in non unicode Japanese the character / becomes ¥. That can be confusing since all paths almost anywhere in Windows will now have that symbol instead of \. For example C:\windows\system32 becomes c:¥windows¥system32.

The second issue is that some programs look at this setting to decide what language to install in. Two that come to mind are Apple's Quicktime and Nero CD. In order to install them in English you need to set this setting back to English, reboot, install, set it back to Japanese, reboot.

once i did this, my problem was solved.

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