Vista Home Basic 32bit Laptop help!

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fraserh

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I am new to forums and have a relatively noob level of computer experience so please be nice! I have built a my own pc before but this questions is about my laptop.

I was given a laptop by a family member who lives in spain, I live in the UK. Its an Acer Aspire 5730( i think!) laptop running Vista Home Basic in SPANISH!!!!

I have coped with it since May 2009 but its doing my head in now. I was thinking of rolling back to XP and reinstalling but they dont publish XP drivers for the laptop.

so i wondered as I have a valid product key for Basic Home in Spanish, if i was to install an English version of Vista on the laptop could I use the product key I have (for the spanish version) or will it not work?

obviously i cant simply change language in vista as its Basic and you can only have 1 langauge installed.

sorry if this is very noobish!!
 

My Computer

System One

Yes you can reinstall with an english.

But your keyboard layout is spanish.
or
You can go to Control Panel>Clocks,Language & region & change to english.
 

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1:Simply download the english language pack to replace the spanish one
or
2:you could try to re-install and at the language menu see if there's english available, if not, go back to step 1 :P
hope this helps!

-Gkahn
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Qosmio
    CPU
    Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo P7350 @ 2.00 GHz
    Motherboard
    TOSHIBA KSRAA (U2E1)
    Memory
    4.0 Hyundai Electronics Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 533 MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 2304MB
    Sound Card
    Realtek High definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Generic PnP Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    120GB TOSHIBA MG1234GSX 250GB TOSHIBA MK2552GSX
    PSU
    n/a
    Case
    n/a
    Cooling
    n/a
    Mouse
    n/a
    Keyboard
    n/a
    Internet Speed
    Wireless
    Other Info
    A sweet Gaming Laptop from Toshiba
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