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Old 06-13-2008   #1 (permalink)
waiki_88
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English Messenger, Chinese/ Japanese Games?! Help please...

Heya I have a full windows live messenger 2008 running on my laptop,
everything is in english apart from my games (and the advertisement bit at
the bottom)?! It looks like some Chinese/ Japanese/ some Asian typing.. I
opened my hotmail account when I was living in Hongkong could that be the
issue? Its not a huge problem but would be nice to understand what's going on
(and win some games!)

Thanks for your help people

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 06-13-2008   #2 (permalink)
Jonathan Kay [MVP]
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Re: English Messenger, Chinese/ Japanese Games?! Help please...

Greetings,

This is because these features in Messenger are localized depending on the locale/country set
in your Windows Live ID and not what language version of Messenger you're using (or Windows).

You can change your locale here:
https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--


"waiki_88" <waiki88@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4CC9DA64-F09F-41F4-8B10-905DE02E4C08@xxxxxx
Quote:

> Heya I have a full windows live messenger 2008 running on my laptop,
> everything is in english apart from my games (and the advertisement bit at
> the bottom)?! It looks like some Chinese/ Japanese/ some Asian typing.. I
> opened my hotmail account when I was living in Hongkong could that be the
> issue? Its not a huge problem but would be nice to understand what's going on
> (and win some games!)
>
> Thanks for your help people

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 06-14-2008   #3 (permalink)
waiki_88
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Re: English Messenger, Chinese/ Japanese Games?! Help please...

Yeahhh it works!!!! Every bit of my messenger is in English now!!!
Thank you so much Jonathan x's


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
Quote:

> Greetings,
>
> This is because these features in Messenger are localized depending on the locale/country set
> in your Windows Live ID and not what language version of Messenger you're using (or Windows).
>
> You can change your locale here:
> https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
> --
>
>
> "waiki_88" <waiki88@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:4CC9DA64-F09F-41F4-8B10-905DE02E4C08@xxxxxx
Quote:

> > Heya I have a full windows live messenger 2008 running on my laptop,
> > everything is in english apart from my games (and the advertisement bit at
> > the bottom)?! It looks like some Chinese/ Japanese/ some Asian typing.. I
> > opened my hotmail account when I was living in Hongkong could that be the
> > issue? Its not a huge problem but would be nice to understand what's going on
> > (and win some games!)
> >
> > Thanks for your help people
>
>
My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 06-14-2008   #4 (permalink)
Jonathan Kay [MVP]
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Re: English Messenger, Chinese/ Japanese Games?! Help please...

Hi,

Sure thing

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--


"waiki_88" <waiki88@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:54FD05DA-8DB9-4E78-9BB6-3A371DE4145A@xxxxxx
Quote:

> Yeahhh it works!!!! Every bit of my messenger is in English now!!!
> Thank you so much Jonathan x's
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> Greetings,
>>
>> This is because these features in Messenger are localized depending on the locale/country
>> set
>> in your Windows Live ID and not what language version of Messenger you're using (or
>> Windows).
>>
>> You can change your locale here:
>> https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> --
>>
>>
>> "waiki_88" <waiki88@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:4CC9DA64-F09F-41F4-8B10-905DE02E4C08@xxxxxx
Quote:

>> > Heya I have a full windows live messenger 2008 running on my laptop,
>> > everything is in english apart from my games (and the advertisement bit at
>> > the bottom)?! It looks like some Chinese/ Japanese/ some Asian typing.. I
>> > opened my hotmail account when I was living in Hongkong could that be the
>> > issue? Its not a huge problem but would be nice to understand what's going on
>> > (and win some games!)
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help people
>>
>>
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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