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GodzGift
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PostPosted: 22:39 - 01 May 2007    Post subject: Vista Change Language Reply with quote
There is a laptop its in french and i cannot troubleshoot in french, so i need to change the language of the whole O/S.

Ive gone into regional settings but that changes the keyboard. The damn vista support site is chatting out of its arse.

Anyone have vista that can point me in the right direction
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NSR Mick
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PostPosted: 22:57 - 01 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have Vista and have just gone to help to try and find out how to do it and most of the options it says to click arent there. Twisted Evil

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If you have no joy before tomorrow morning I'll have a proper look then as I'm a too beered up at the moment. Thumbs Up
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GodzGift
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PostPosted: 11:54 - 02 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cheers gsxrmick, the worst thing is its in french so navigating is a complete mission. Im enjoying it anyways, not really being very productive.

For the record: The reason I am trying to do this is because i have a wireless router in the house and the signal is encrypted. The laptop has vista and is french. When i try to connect to my wireless network i type the password which I have set on my router, and it doesnt accept the password. For the time being i have disabled the security of my wireless which I am not happy about, but it works and I am able to connect wireless to teh net with the laptop. So i wanted to change the language of the laptop to effectively the toubleshoot the authentication issue.

I even changed the encryption to WEP, WEP2, 128bit standard, changed the password quite a few times.
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Bod
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PostPosted: 12:04 - 02 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can you not type a password into notepad, then copy and paste it into your settings? That why the keys will match?
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GodzGift
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PostPosted: 12:16 - 02 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
bod wrote:
Can you not type a password into notepad, then copy and paste it into your settings? That why the keys will match?


dude, i tried that, i changed the pass to just numbers, just in case it was a letters issue, no joy Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 13:23 - 02 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry mate....the only thing I can think of is that the laptop wireless card aint compatible with your security setup i.e. WEP etc. Or have you tried that too?
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GodzGift
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PostPosted: 16:43 - 02 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
bod wrote:
Sorry mate....the only thing I can think of is that the laptop wireless card aint compatible with your security setup i.e. WEP etc. Or have you tried that too?


yeah dude, i tried all secrity formats, wep,wep2, 64 bit, 128, no joy.

i took the security off and it still doesnt work. and after 2 minutes it just connects automatically, what a knob of a wireless card and o/s
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pwntifex
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PostPosted: 00:05 - 03 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
GodzGift wrote:

dude, i tried that, i changed the pass to just numbers, just in case it was a letters issue, no joy Rolling Eyes

If you're using the French keyboard layout to type the password, then the numbers will not work: on a french keyboard, the numbers are not actually numbers at all, '12345678' comes out as '&é"'(§è!'.
So I would make sure the layout is in English when typing your pass..
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GodzGift
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PostPosted: 12:40 - 03 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah dude i know that, after i type my password i also typed the same to a notepad and it displayed the correct data.

I changed the keyboard to English, and still no joy.

Possible errors
- either im a retard ( unlikely )
- issue with wireless card & encryption
- Vista
- Router

im going to test with another wireless laptop to make sure its not the wireless router.
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NSR Mick
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PostPosted: 13:34 - 03 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've found Vista to be a right a bitch with encrypted networks, the only method I have got to work ok is open wep.
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GodzGift
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PostPosted: 15:21 - 03 May 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote
gsxrmick wrote:
I've found Vista to be a right a bitch with encrypted networks, the only method I have got to work ok is open wep.


cheers dude, have some Karma im going to have another go, if no joy , im gonna run a rj45 to the bedroom nextdoor out the window and back in through the window. Ive got a nice long cable lying around so it should be ok.
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