Taiwan Version - cannot change language settings to English

Sometimes it's the simple things we overlook. After making the changes, did you click "Apply" or "Okay" before restarting? Try again but make sure you click Apply.

System Requirements

• PC with AMD or Intel based processors, Dual Core CPU, 2 GB RAM.
• 3.5GB available hard drive space (for English only, 7.5 GB for all languages)
• DVD drive (for DVD install only)
• Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012
• Languages: Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Technical Specs

• Hardware Requirements: Intel Pentium III or equivalent processor, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB Recommended
• Disk Space: 2 GB for default installation with English language, 4 GB for default installation with all languages installed

Simplified Chinese is more useful. Coz more people speak Simplified Mandarin . If you living in China and you could speak Simplified Mandarin well. You would get a good job.

It looks like you have so called cold push button. In fact there is nothing to do with push button as the fault is in contact or in microchip, but that's a long story to explain. You probably would be able to fix it with my help, but as I understand, your Garmin is brand new and still under the warranty, so, there is no reason to open it yourself and loose the warranty. My advise is to go back to the retailer who sold it and ask to change it for the new one.

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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"

Try a master reset using the manual, It should reset it factory settings. You can then configure the archos.

all you can is to reinstall your operating system. Buy a OEM ms98 english version.. then install. GOOD LUCK

wat I did was, I installed an elgish version of vista and then used the key given for the chinese vista for registration. Hence, I got both english version of vista and got it licensed too.

If you bought the laptop in russia it is probably running a russian version of windows. You can get an english version of windows and reinstall ms office if you like or you can reboot the laptop and when it comes to language settings choose english version of windows. Unless you can read russian or know someone who does it will be difficult to change it. But ms office should give you a language option when you install it. Try uninstalling it then reinstall it and make sure you read each and every page before you click on next I to had this same problem with ms office and when I uninstalled and reinstalled I found I had somehow missed the option for language in my windows version only mine was chinese instead of english. Once changed it was all in english

Hi,

If the menus are all in Chinese then you will need to install an Enlgish version of Windows XP.