Habla Espanol?

[at2wooden]

As some of you have heard me say before, I am doing a rebuild from old parts for my grandson in Costa Rica.

I will be reinstalling the existing license that came with my eMachine since basically I am using the old parts with a new case and motherboard.

It's an english version (US) of XP and would like to change as much of the OS to spanish as possible.

Many of the software programs I have seem to come with language choices.

By changing the region/language to spanish what does that really effect?

List of parts in rebuild

ECS P4VXASD2+V5.X MB
1.5GHZ 400 FSB 256KB Willamette P4
Rosewill RES02-SLV 500W PSU (with 24-20 pin adapter)
CoolerMaster IAC-002 Socket 478 CPU Fan
Asus GeForce4 MX440se 64MB 4X AGP
120GB 133IDE HD
2 X 512MB PC133 SDRAM
Liteon DVD-RW / Floppy / 5.25” BayCooler
Benq ATX Case

[DanTheBanjoman]

I don't (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/honeycutt_03april28.mspx)know (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/xpintlsupp.mspx)

[Thermopylae_480]

If your existing version of XP came with your e-machine it may not work. Often times OS' that come with computers will only work on that brand. i.e. the when you get a copy of XP with a dell computer in only works with Dell computers, if you change the motherboard, than you can no longer use "their" copy of XP.

[M. Mellough]

By changing the region/language to spanish what does that really effect?

Those settings only affect regional parameters such as keyboard layout, time/date display, currency format, measuring units (I think any other region/language than "USA" will default to metrics), etc. It won't change interface language, for that you have to buy a Spanish version of Windows.