Vista Home Basic 32bit Laptop help!

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!!

hello and welcome

I have never used this but have heard that it works to change the language...Its worth looking at anyway......good luck , Vistalizator - change display language in Windows Vista and Windows 7

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.

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