Monitor controls are in Spanish how do I change to English?

Try going to your menu button or setup button on the remote. Look for the word "Idioma". That is spanish for language. Once you select ENGLISH to change, make sure you follow the exit instructions so it will be memorized

You need to make two changes:-

Go to Control Panel

1. Pick the Language Icon and change the language to English

2. Pick the Keyboard Icon and change it to Spanish Keyboard.

Change the display language
1. Click the start menu
2. Click the control panel
3. Click on the clock, language, & region option
4. Click on change display language, under regional and language options
5. For users on classic view click on keyboards & languages tab
6. Under display language,, choose language from the list
7. If no list of languages is displayed,, make sure you have additional
Language packs are installed

You do the below seteps: This is what you do:

Start > Control Panel > Clock, Language, and Region > Regional and Language Options.

Once in the Regional and Language Options, click the Keyboards and Languages tab. If you see a drop down list of languages, see if it is set to English. If not, set to English. However, if you do not have this list there, you may need to install it.

Hi

Thank you for your query, unfortunaltey you cannot change the whole of windows from Spanish to English you will need to purchase a copy of windows in English

If you are referring to the keyboard layout then this can be changed, please do the following

1) Click on Start>Control Panel> Regional and Language Options> (Tab) Languages>Details

In this area add English and remove Spanish

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If you just want to change the keyboard and general language settings, you simply go to the Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Regional/Language settings and change your language.

If your friend installed the Turkish version of WinXP (i.E. all the alert boxes are in Turkish) and you want to modify it to another language - that's a totally different and more complex situation.

In order to change the whole system language you can install a newer service pack in a different Language or uninstall the last installed Service Pack and after changing the registry settings below Install it again.
!!!Make always a backup of your Registry first !

You have XP SP2 in Turkish and want to change your systmes language to English, you will have to download SP3 in English (link).
(You can change the language here to another one before the download.)
Then you will have to change some registry keys. (Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlNlsLanguage Registry Key), and change the value for “Default” and “InstallLanguage” from 041F (Turkish) to 0409 (English).
Reboot and you'll be able to install SP3 in English.
If no problems occur, you will have the whole system language changed.
Here is the List of numbers that represents each language in the registry:
* 0436 = "af;Afrikaans"
* 041C = "sq;Albanian"
* 0001 = "ar;Arabic"
* 0401 = "ar-sa;Arabic (Saudi Arabia)"
* 0801 = "ar-iq;Arabic (Iraq)"
* 0C01 = "ar-eg;Arabic (Egypt)"
* 1001 = "ar-ly;Arabic (Libya)"
* 1401 = "ar-dz;Arabic (Algeria)"
* 1801 = "ar-ma;Arabic (Morocco)"
* 1C01 = "ar-tn;Arabic (Tunisia)"
* 2001 = "ar-om;Arabic (Oman)"
* 2401 = "ar-ye;Arabic (Yemen)"
* 2801 = "ar-sy;Arabic (Syria)"
* 2C01 = "ar-jo;Arabic (Jordan)"
* 3001 = "ar-lb;Arabic (Lebanon)"
* 3401 = "ar-kw;Arabic (Kuwait)"
* 3801 = "ar-ae;Arabic (you.A.E.)"
* 3C01 = "ar-bh;Arabic (Bahrain)"
* 4001 = "ar-qa;Arabic (Qatar)"
* 042D = "eu;Basque"
* 0402 = "bg;Bulgarian"
* 0423 = "be;Belarusian"
* 0403 = "ca;Catalan"
* 0004 = "zh;Chinese"
* 0404 = "zh-tw;Chinese (Taiwan)"
* 0804 = "zh-cn;Chinese (China)"
* 0C04 = "zh-hk;Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)"
* 1004 = "zh-sg;Chinese (Singapore)"
* 041A = "hr;Croatian"
* 0405 = "cs;Czech"
* 0406 = "the;Danish"
* 0413 = "nl;Dutch (Netherlands)"
* 0813 = "nl-be;Dutch (Belgium)"
* 0009 = "en;English"
* 0409 = "en-us;English (United States)"
* 0809 = "en-gb;English (United Kingdom)"
* 0C09 = "en-au;English (Australia)"
* 1009 = "en-ca;English (Canada)"
* 1409 = "en-nz;English (New Zealand)"
* 1809 = "en-ie;English (Ireland)"
* 1C09 = "en-za;English (South Africa)"
* 2009 = "en-jm;English (Jamaica)"
* 2809 = "en-bz;English (Belize)"
* 2C09 = "en-tt;English (Trinidad)"
* 0425 = "et;Estonian"
* 0438 = "fo;Faeroese"
* 0429 = "fa;Farsi"
* 040B = "fi;Finnish"
* 040C = "fr;French (France)"
* 080C = "fr-be;French (Belgium)"
* 0C0C = "fr-ca;French (Canada)"
* 100C = "fr-ch;French (Switzerland)"
* 140C = "fr-lu;French (Luxembourg)"
* 043C = "gd;Gaelic"
* 0407 = "de;German (Germany)"
* 0807 = "de-ch;German (Switzerland)"
* 0C07 = "de-at;German (Austria)"
* 1007 = "de-lu;German (Luxembourg)"
* 1407 = "de-li;German (Liechtenstein)"
* 0408 = "el;Greek"
* 040D = "he;Hebrew"
* 0439 = "hi;Hindi"
* 040E = "hu;Hungarian"
* 040F = "is;Icelandic"
* 0421 = "in;Indonesian"
* 0410 = "it;Italian (Italy)"
* 0810 = "it-ch;Italian (Switzerland)"
* 0411 = "ja;Japanese"
* 0412 = "ko;Korean"
* 0426 = "lv;Latvian"
* 0427 = "lt;Lithuanian"
* 042F = "mk;FYRO Macedonian"
* 043E = "ms;Malay (Malaysia)"
* 043A = "mt;Maltese" 0414 = "no;Norwegian (Bokmal)"
* 0814 = "no;Norwegian (Nynorsk)"
* 0415 = "pl;Polish"
* 0416 = "pt-br;Portuguese (Brazil)"
* 0816 = "pt;Portuguese (Portugal)"
* 0417 = "rm;Rhaeto-Romanic"
* 0418 = "ro;Romanian"
* 0818 = "ro-mo;Romanian (Moldova)"
* 0419 = "ru;Russian"
* 0819 = "ru-mo;Russian (Moldova)"
* 0C1A = "sr;Serbian (Cyrillic)"
* 081A = "sr;Serbian (Latin)"
* 041B = "sk;Slovak"
* 0424 = "sl;Slovenian"
* 042E = "sb;Sorbian"
* 040A = "es;Spanish (Traditional Sort)"
* 080A = "es-mx;Spanish (Mexico)"
* 0C0A = "es;Spanish (International Sort)"
* 100A = "es-gt;Spanish (Guatemala)"
* 140A = "es-cr;Spanish (Costa Rica)"
* 180A = "es-pa;Spanish (Panama)"
* 1C0A = "es-do;Spanish (Dominican Republic)"
* 200A = "es-ve;Spanish (Venezuela)"
* 240A = "es-co;Spanish (Colombia)"
* 280A = "es-pe;Spanish (Peru)"
* 2C0A = "es-ar;Spanish (Argentina)"
* 300A = "es-ec;Spanish (Ecuador)"
* 340A = "es-cl;Spanish (Chile)"
* 380A = "es-uy;Spanish (Uruguay)"
* 3C0A = "es-py;Spanish (Paraguay)"
* 400A = "es-bo;Spanish (Bolivia)"
* 440A = "es-sv;Spanish (El Salvador)"
* 480A = "es-hn;Spanish (Honduras)"
* 4C0A = "es-ni;Spanish (Nicaragua)"
* 500A = "es-pr;Spanish (Puerto Rico)"
* 0430 = "sx;Sutu"
* 041D = "sv;Swedish"
* 081D = "sv-fi;Swedish (Finland)"
* 041E = "th;Thai"
* 0431 = "ts;Tsonga"
* 0432 = "tn;Tswana"
* 041F = "tr;Turkish"
* 0422 = "uk;Ukrainian"
* 0420 = "your;Urdu"
* 042A = "vi;Vietnamese"
* 0434 = "xh;Xhosa"
* 043D = "ji;Yiddish"
* 0435 = "zu;Zulu"

you need to go to your control panel and go to the regional and language tab, under there change all the setting to english

Hi,
go to control panel, regional languages, languages and keyboards,

Select spanish, put it to the top, save it, your done.

Select the option to put the language bar on the desktop,
then you can switch between languages,

Regards
Richard.

Hi is the keyboard itsedlf Spanish or just the local set to Spanish? If its a Spanish keyboard on your laptop it could be expensive to change and certainlynot easy on a laptop, If its the locale settings under a Windows o/s then goto control panel, regional & language, and set your keyboard to English under there.
Hope this helps

time for a new monitor? The controller chip is fried. A new chip is too expensive.