How to determine the regional settings and supported languages (273558)

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Windows 2000                            Windows Millennium
Language settings for the system:       Language:

Arabic                                  Afrikaans
Armenian                                Albanian
Baltic                                  Basque
Central Europe                          Belarusian
Cyrillic                                Bulgarian
Georgian                                Catalan
Greek                                   Croatian
Hebrew                                  Czech
Indic                                   Danish
Japanese                                Dutch
Korean                                  English
Simplified Chinese                      Estonian
Thai                                    Faeroese
Traditional Chinese                     Finnish
Turkic                                  French
Vietnamese                              German
Western Europe and United States        Hungarian
                                        Icelandic
                                        Indonesian
                                        Italian
                                        Latvian
                                        Lithuanian
                                        Macedonian (FYROM)
                                        Norwegian (Bokmal)
                                        Norwegian (Nynorsk)
                                        Polish
                                        Portuguese
                                        Romanian
                                        Russian
                                        Serbian (Cyrillic)
                                        Slovak
                                        Slovenian
                                        Spanish
                                        Swedish
                                        Turkish
                                        Ukrainian




Windows 2000                    Windows Millennium 
Your locale (location):         Country/Region:
Afrikaans                       Afghanistan
Basque                          Albania
Catalan                         Algeria
Danish                          American Samoa
Dutch (Belgium)                 Andorra
Dutch (Netherlands)             Angola
English (Australia)             Antigua and Barbuda
English (Belize)                Argentina
English (Canada)                Armenia
English (Caribbean)             Australia
English (Ireland)               Austria
English (Jamaica)               Azerbaijan
English (New Zealand)           Bahamas, The
English (Philippines)           Bahrain
English (South Africa)          Bangladesh
English (Trinidad)              Barbados
English (United Kingdom)        Belarus
English (United States)         Belgium
English (Zimbabwe)              Belize
Faeroese                        Benin
Finnish                         Bermuda
French (Belgium)                Bhutan
French (Canada)                 Bolivia
French (France)                 Bosnia and Herzegovina
French (Luxembourg)             Botswana
French (Monaco)                 Brazil
French (Switzerland)            British Indian Ocean Territory
German (Austria)                Brunei
German (Germany)                Bulgaria
German (Liechtenstein)          Burkina Faso
German (Luxembourg)             Burundi
German (Switzerland)            Cambodia
Icelandic                       Cameroon
Indonesian                      Canada
Italian (Italy)                 Cape Verde
Italian (Switzerland)           Central African Republic
Japanese                        Chad
Korean                          Chile
Malay (Brunei Darussalam)       China
Malay (Malaysia)                Colombia
Norwegian (Bokmal)              Comoros
Norwegian (Nynorsk)             Congo
Portuguese (Brazil)             Congo (DRC)
Portuguese (Portugal)           Costa Rica
Spanish (Argentina)             Croatia
Spanish ((Bolivia)              Cuba
Spanish (Chile)                 Cyprus
Spanish (Colombia)              Czech Republic
Spanish (Costa Rica)            Cote d'Ivoire
Spanish (Dominican Republic)    Denmark
Spanish (Ecuador)               Djibouti
Spanish (El Salvador)           Dominica
Spanish (Guatemala)             Dominican Republic
Spanish (Honduras)              East Timor
Spanish (Mexico)                Ecuador
Spanish (Nicaragua)             Egypt
Spanish (Panama)                El Salvador
Spanish (Paraguay)              Equatorial Guinea
Spanish (Peru)                  Eritrea
Spanish (Puerto Rico)           Estonia
Spanish (Spain)                 Ethiopia
Spanish (Uruguay)              Macedonian (FYROM)
Spanish (Venezuela)             Faeroe Islands
Swahili                         Fiji Islands
Swedish                         Finland
Swedish (Finland)               France
                                Gabon
                                Gambia, The
                                Georgia
                                Germany
                                Ghana
                                Gibraltar
                                Greece
                                Greenland
                                Grenada
                                Guatemala
                                Guinea
                                Guinea-Bissau
                                Guyana
                                Haiti
                                Honduras
                                Hong Kong S.A.R.
                                Hungary
                                Iceland
                                India
                                Indonesia
                                Iran
                                Iraq
                                Ireland
                                Israel
                                Italy
                                Jamaica
                                Jan Mayen
                                Japan
                                Johnston Atoll
                                Jordan
                                Kazakhstan
                                Kenya
                                Kiribati
                                Korea
                                Kuwait
                                Kyrgyz Stan
                                Laos
                                Latvia
                                Lebanon
                                Lesotho
                                Liberia
                                Libya
                                Liechtenstein
                                Lithuania
                                Luxembourg
                                Madagascar
                                Malawi
                                Malaysia
                                Maldives
                                Mali
                                Malta
                                Man, Isle of
                                Marshall Islands
                                Mauritania
                                Mauritius
                                Mexico
                                Micronesia
                                Midway Islands
                                Moldova
                                Monaco
                                Mongolia
                                Morocco
                                Mozambique
                                Myanmar
                                Namibia
                                Nauru
                                Nepal
                                Netherlands, The
                                New Zealand
                                Nicaragua
                                Niger
                                Nigeria
                                North Korea
                                Norway
                                Oman
                                Pakistan
                                Palau
                                Panama
                                Papua New Guinea
                                Paraguay
                                Peru
                                Philippines
                                Poland
                                Portugal
                                Puerto Rico
                                Qatar
                                Reunion
                                Romania
                                Russia
                                Rwanda
                                Saint Pierre and Miquelon
                                Samoa
                                San Marino
                                Saudi Arabia
                                Senegal
                                Seychelles
                                Sierra Leone
                                Singapore
                                Slovakia
                                Slovenia
                                Solomon Islands
                                Somalia
                                South Africa
                                Spain
                                Sri Lanka
                                St. Kitts and Nevis
                                St. Lucia
                                St. Vincent and the Grenadines
                                Sudan
                                Suriname
                                Svalbard
                                Swaziland
                                Sweden
                                Switzerland
                                Syria
                                Sao Tome and Principe
                                Taiwan
                                Tajikistan
                                Tanzania
                                Thailand
                                Togo
                                Tonga
                                Trinidad and Tobago
                                Tunisia
                                Turkey
                                Turkmenistan
                                Tuvalu
                                Uganda
                                Ukraine
                                United Arab Emirates
                                United Kingdom
                                United States
                                Uruguay
                                Uzbekistan
                                Vanuatu
                                Vatican City
                                Venezuela
                                Vietnam
                                Virgin Islands
                                Wake Island
                                Yemen
                                Zambia
                                Zimbabwe

You can add, enable, and configure support for multiple languages using the Regional Settings tool in Control Panel.

To change the default language:

1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Regional Settings.
2. On the Regional Settings tab, click the language that you want to use, and then click OK.
3. When you are prompted to restart your computer, click Yes.
4. In Control Panel, double-click Keyboard.
5. On the Language tab, click Add, click the language you want to use in the Add Language dialog, click OK, click Set As Default, and then click OK.

To install multilanguage support:

1. In Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove Programs.
2. On the Windows Setup tab, click to select the Multilanguage Support check box, and then click OK.
3. When you are prompted to restart the computer, click Yes.