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Although I’m Dutch, I prefer to use my Operating System and software in English. This has several reasons, but the foremost reason is that I just don’t like some translations (Mac OS X, for example, translates ‘File’ as ‘Archief’ (‘Archive’) instead of ‘Bestand’ (‘File’)).
However, I like to see my date and time formatting in what’s default in my country, so I configured Windows to use Dutch formatting. Also, I’ve set Windows to use Dutch as my default character set for non-Unicode programs.
Unfortunately, some programs misinterpret this setting and feel like to show me dialogs in Dutch. Most programs allow you to choose English somewhere in the configuration, but nVidia likes to be a pain in the ass and won’t offer this option. Even if you download the English version of the software, nVidia shows localized messages.
To prevent nVidia from showing you non-English messages, just execute this batch file in Windows:
del %windir%\system32\nvwssr.dll /f /q del %windir%\system32\nvvitvsr.dll /f /q del %windir%\system32\nvrssv.dll /f /q del %windir%\system32\nvmoblsr.dll /f /q del %windir%\system32\nvmccssr.dll /f /q del %windir%\system32\nvmccsrs.dll /f /q del %windir%\system32\nvgamesr.dll /f /q del %windir%\system32\nvdispsr.dll /f /q del %windir%\system32\nvcpluir.dll /f /q
You can also go to the folder System32 in your Windows dir and remove (or rename) the files mentioned above.
When you now start the Control Panel, all messages and dialogs will be in English. Tadaa!
This website is the personal weblog of Ralph Broenink. He studies Computer Science at the University of Twente and is lead software engineer at Antagonist webhosting. Furthermore, he was member of the board of study association Inter-Actief. More information about him can be found at the 'About me'-page.
Peter-Paul
October 9th, 2008 at 10:13
There’s actually a much neater solution. In your Regional and Language settings, instead of choosing the default Dutch format, pick an English one and manually adjust the currency, decimal point, date format and time format. That way, English will still be the default language for your “region”.
You can still select The Netherlands as your location, but that is, of course, something completely different then a “region”.
Also, why do you have Dutch as the default “language for non-Unicode programs”? I thought you changed this to English after the horror of Spore in Dutch (“maatjes!”
).
Ralph Broenink
October 9th, 2008 at 18:44
Yes, I changed that after the ‘maatjes’-horror, but it shouldn’t use this setting to determine my local settings, as it’s meant to be used as a fallback for the character encoding and not for language settings. For Dutch vs. English, there aren’t much differences, but I can imagine German people still want to use their ß’s and ü’s and it might be possible that these characters aren’t in the English ISO8859-sets.
Furthermore, your regional settings should only be used as your format for date, currency etc. and not for your default language. As far as I’m concerned, only system language should determine your program language, but maybe that isn’t accurate enough either. So, a classic drop-down box should be still in place.
Above all, nVidia’s control center, even when you’ve downloaded ‘English-only’, will be in Dutch. Strange, isn’t it?
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