Start, control panel, regional options, and maybe "French" will be on 
the list. If not select "Advanced" and look for "French" then set as 
default....   Bonne chance 
Faites-l'en français maintenant   no need to install OS again......


Paul A. Shippert wrote:

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>I believe this can be effected from an app in the Control Panel. I believe it is called Language Settings or International settings. I can't check on that for sure right now, as I only have acces via a Mac for the time being.
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>Paul A. Shippert
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>>I currently have Windows XP home edition Sp2 in English installed on my machine.  
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