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Something puzzles me. It would seem that use of localized versions of XP is lot more common than I thought (unless XP has started to change the names of My Computer and My Documents when you change the locale... which it shouldn't do, I think).

The reason this puzzles me is the support, or lack thereof. See, when (for example) a service pack is released, the US-English version is out, rest are coming when they happen to feel like it. Some major languages seem to get simultaneous release with English stuff - at least occasionally - but the smaller ones often are lagging behind.

Thus I'm puzzled as to why anyone would want to use a localized version of XP. :roll:
 
I'm using a Dutch version of WinXP because I was able to get a legal version of it through my University. I paid a mere 15 euro's, whereas XP normally costs around 100 euro's or more. The only version they sold however was the Dutch one, so I had to go with that one.

On top of that, I get my updates everytime they come out. I've installed them at least 5 times now and my system is still Dutch...would that make Dutch a major language? Somehow I can hardly believe that.

Interesting nevertheless.
 
On top of that, I get my updates everytime they come out.
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Service packs, too?

Yes, I can see that that's for the CD, but I couldn't find the dates for the downloadable version. Unless I'm totally mistaken, there was a similar - although not that clear - pattern there too.
 
ye-roon - Fate/Stay Night is a game by Type-Moon, the anime is adapted from that. Fate/Hollow Ataraxia is the sequel to Stay Night, hence has the same characters plus a few new ones.
 
On top of that, I get my updates everytime they come out.
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Service packs, too?

Yes, I can see that that's for the CD, but I couldn't find the dates for the downloadable version. Unless I'm totally mistaken, there was a similar - although not that clear - pattern there too.
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Hmm...you might just be right. I can't seem to find them anywhere indeed. It is ofcourse no problem for me to switch from Dutch to English, I don't know however whether or not I would be needing a different XP version in order to do so.
However, I can't imagine they'd make these service packs in just one language only...
 
During testing, Windows / service packs are generally available in English, German (which has some pretty long words), and Japanese (which uses a multi-byte character set... although they may have moved everything to Unicode or something by now? I'm not sure).  Some of the localization work and testing for other languages doesn't happen until the service pack is finished, which is why there is a delay on the release for other languages.

I don't know however whether or not I would be needing a different XP version in order to do so.
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If you're talking about just flipping a switch and having Windows be in English, I don't think that this is possible.  You'd have to get the English version.
 
ye-roon - Fate/Stay Night is a game by Type-Moon, the anime is adapted from that. Fate/Hollow Ataraxia is the sequel to Stay Night, hence has the same characters plus a few new ones.
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cool :)

nice to know i can watch another anime after this one :)
 
Not for a long while I would imagine though. Fate/Stay Night is still airing now, and it's unlikely they'd animate a sequel until a good 6 months after the finish of Stay Night. I would like to see Hollow Ataraxia as an anime though :)
 
Decided to go for Mac look this time....  :D

New desktop

Alright I guess I should be revising now.... :erm:
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i'm curious on how you pulled that off... it at least LOOKS like a cross between Windowblinds and a Vista Beta. i WANT the toolbar at the buttom! how did you do this?
 
Toolbar at the bottom looks like ObjeckDock and I think that there's some kind of a widget running. It doesn't look like Samurize, so I guess that it might be Konfabulator. Or Yahoo Widget Engine (ewwww), like it seems to be called now.

Anyway, I'm sure that he'll be happy to explain.
 
Still have my dog on my desktop.  This happened a couple of months ago with him in two feet of snow.

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