change language in vista Home premium

HI I have recentley I have a toshiba equium laptop with vista home premium on it, however, it is in Chinese, the bios is English and there is something funny like "enter" in English, but nothing else, I know where the list of languages is in Control Panel etc, but all languages in the drop down menus are in Chinese (kanji I think) and I can't read it... What is English United Kingdom in kanji? someone told any suggestions short of a complete re - load, oh, and I don't have a vista disc as I have always used xp.

If it's a version of Chinese language of Vista, change the display language to English will change SOME of the Chinese-to-English User Interface, but it is not an English version of Vista. (It is available only in Vista Ultimate.)

See also the section "when you change the display language...". "at the bottom of this page-online http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-the-display-language

The foregoing anyway, this really has nothing to do with the Windows Update feature. You can find assistance appropriate in this forum instead: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistaappearance/threads

~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

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