I gave a laptop to some friends in Mexico. THey need all the text to display in Spanish. I tried all the language and region settings on the system with no luck. When I was in college, I think there was this thing called MIME that changed computer displays to specific languages.

What do I need to do to get make this laptop to speak spanish other than put some Impala tags, hydraulics, blare some Ompp Ompp mariachi music, and shout La Migra!!.

knowing os would help. assuming it's xp, try:

control panel/regional and language options

under regional options tab:
select whatever language suits your ding-a-ling

next select languages tab:
1) click details tab
2) again, select whichever language suits your fancy
3) add keyboard for language desired

finally, select advanced tab:
select the language again

once complete, go login to spanish pr0n site and stroke your organ to spanish pr0n!

I think I tried those steps without any luck.

It's a Sony Vaio running Vista.

Just want to verify that windows OS has settings to change everything in the display and all the apps to spanish. I thought you needed an app to do this kind of thing.

So for example, instead of My Computer, it would read Mi Computadora.

the "app" you speak of is built into windows. windows internationalizes most everything it has in its box. the settings above should change language from english default to whatever you choose. now, any installed programs may not be able to be converted to foreign language of your choosing.

i have no direct experience with the pos known as vista, but i assume the language/regional settings did not change much.

Ok, thanks brotha. Mucho appreciated!