Hello,

I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium OEM edition preinstalled on
it. However, it is in Russian and I would much prefer an English
edition.

My friend has Vista Ultimate Retail edition DVD. If I install that on
the laptop, and type in my product key on the sticker at the base of
the laptop, will it install a Vista Home Premium in English?

If not, what is the best way to change the base language of an OEM
Home Premium??

Thank you

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:54:28 -0700 (PDT) M8R-cq5n0d@mailinator.comwrote
in
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> Hello,
>
> I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium OEM edition preinstalled on
> it. However, it is in Russian and I would much prefer an English
> edition.
>
> My friend has Vista Ultimate Retail edition DVD. If I install that on
> the laptop, and type in my product key on the sticker at the base of
> the laptop, will it install a Vista Home Premium in English?
>
> If not, what is the best way to change the base language of an OEM
> Home Premium??
>
> Thank you

Language is chosen during installation, from a list.

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and dog foot extract smothered in heinous chef's pubic hairs and liver
sauce accentuated by heinous starling lesion accompanied by gruesome
excrescence on top of impaired koala mucus membrane with cabbage
preserve, simmered in a randomly twitching mug chock full of vapid
cooked lettuce in malignant slime, a side of Foetal sturgeon brain and
a drink of sewage.

On 17 Jul, 21:55, "Nigger-chicken and Fries" <n...@KFC.con> wrote:
>
> Language is chosen during installation, from a list.
>

Thanks for the information. I guess my next question is, will a retail
DVD of Vista install on a laptop using the OEM key stuck on the
bottom ...?

<M8R-cq5n0d@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> On 17 Jul, 21:55, "Nigger-chicken and Fries" <n...@KFC.con> wrote:
>>
>> Language is chosen during installation, from a list.
>>
>
> Thanks for the information. I guess my next question is, will a retail
> DVD of Vista install on a laptop using the OEM key stuck on the
> bottom ...?


No. You will need a retail key..


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On 17 Jul, 22:05, "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@remove_mvps.com> wrote:
>
> No. You will need a retail key..
>

Do you know how I can obtain a OEM install media instead of retail?
Laptop is Toshiba, it came with no disks.

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:13:08 -0700 (PDT), M8R-cq5n0d@mailinator.com
wrote:

>Do you know how I can obtain a OEM install media instead of retail?
>Laptop is Toshiba, it came with no disks.

You get it the same way you get the retail version: buy it.

<M8R-cq5n0d@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> On 17 Jul, 21:55, "Nigger-chicken and Fries" <n...@KFC.con> wrote:
>>
>> Language is chosen during installation, from a list.
>>
>
> Thanks for the information. I guess my next question is, will a retail
> DVD of Vista install on a laptop using the OEM key stuck on the
> bottom ...?


No. A retail version of Vista has its own product key. Use that.

<M8R-cq5n0d@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> On 17 Jul, 22:05, "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@remove_mvps.com> wrote:
>>
>> No. You will need a retail key..
>>
>
> Do you know how I can obtain a OEM install media instead of retail?
> Laptop is Toshiba, it came with no disks.


Ask Toshiba if they can supply an OEM Vista DVD or maybe even a Recovery DVD
for your model. You may have to pay something for this.

Or, you can hope that a friend or relative has a generic OEM Vista DVD (not
computer manufacturer branded)..

Or, you can buy a new one which comes with appropriate key..

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<M8R-cq5n0d@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> On 17 Jul, 22:05, "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@remove_mvps.com> wrote:
>>
>> No. You will need a retail key..
>>
>
> Do you know how I can obtain a OEM install media instead of retail?
> Laptop is Toshiba, it came with no disks.

If your e-mail addy was valid, I sent you a URL.

Colin Barnhorst wrote:
> <M8R-cq5n0d@mailinator.com> wrote in message
> news:ce35a128-f85e-4cd9-944b-ae97aa17dc62@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>> On 17 Jul, 21:55, "Nigger-chicken and Fries" <n...@KFC.con> wrote:
>>>
>>> Language is chosen during installation, from a list.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the information. I guess my next question is, will a retail
>> DVD of Vista install on a laptop using the OEM key stuck on the
>> bottom ...?
>
>
> No. A retail version of Vista has its own product key. Use that.


Why dont you leave again?... it was better in here without you...

F Oh'Ff vist- A wrote:

> Colin Barnhorst wrote:
>
>> <M8R-cq5n0d@mailinator.com> wrote in message
>> news:ce35a128-f85e-4cd9-944b-ae97aa17dc62@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>> On 17 Jul, 21:55, "Nigger-chicken and Fries" <n...@KFC.con> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Language is chosen during installation, from a list.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the information. I guess my next question is, will a retail
>>> DVD of Vista install on a laptop using the OEM key stuck on the
>>> bottom ...?
>>
>>
>>
>> No. A retail version of Vista has its own product key. Use that.
>
>
>
> Why dont you leave again?... it was better in here without you...
>

****! I think you're drunk! Does your mommy know you stole her booze? Or
did you and mr drunken pig hook up, huh?
Two drunken losers!...LOL!

FAB wrote:

> ****! I think you're drunk! Does your mommy know you stole her booze? Or
> did you and mr drunken pig hook up, huh?
> Two drunken losers!...LOL!

Thats it! Why didn't I think about this earlier! You are reflecting again!

Its you who are an alcoholic and you go around saying adam or I am!!!

Your liver must be black and sick just like your brain and heart!

I dont drink alcohol at all sorry to break your bubble. Not wine, not
beer not anything. I have more than 3 years to drink any form of alcohol
and never really liked it much, accept of an occasional long drink.

Sorry frank, your brain may be destroyed by drugs, smoke and alcohol
abuse, and that may explain your deteriorating and crazy mentality, but
my brain is getting better and better with time.

Well, I tried reinstalling and found that Ultimate DVD does indeed
contain all editions, including English Home Premium which is what I
needed.

Unfortunately - on the second boot, the computer bluescreened with
STOP: 0x0000012a (0x00000002, 0x00008002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) and
message "Windows did not find any installed, licensed language packs
for the system default UI language."

So it looks like my key on the base of the laptop is not only contain
information for Vista OEM, Home Premium but also language Russian.


M8R-cq5...@mailinator.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium OEM edition preinstalled on
> it. However, it is in Russian and I would much prefer an English
> edition.
>
> My friend has Vista Ultimate Retail edition DVD. If I install that on
> the laptop, and type in my product key on the sticker at the base of
> the laptop, will it install a Vista Home Premium in English?
>
> If not, what is the best way to change the base language of an OEM
> Home Premium??
>
> Thank you