you'll need someone to read Russian to really help. if you got to the dialog to change the regional settings to Western Europe and US and nothing changed, something may have hijacked your computer. i can't find anything concrete on the Microsoft web site. i think you will have to call HP. is your antivirus program working OK? you might as well do a scan while you are at it.
Herb...
I really feel embarassed about this. I was online and my Hewlett packard Pavillion running windows XP suddenly changed from English to what appears to be a Russian Language, Iwas on a Russian site at the time and I assume that is what it is. The problem is that I do not read the language and I can't seem to reset the regional settings in the control panel, I did get that far by decipering some of the letters. I tried to reset the language at the dos prompt but that does not affect windows. If you know a way to do this short of reinstalling everything it would be a big help.

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