Mac gurus

[Tsunami]

Can someone give me a very detailed dumbed down explanation how to change the language setting for a Mac? Pictures with arrows would be awesome.

I am at my mom's house and her friend changed her settings to chinese. She wants to change it back but I can't read chinese, therefore I can't change the setting since I am unfamiliar with what tabs normally go where since I work off a PC.

Thanks!!

Gina

[Bluestreak]

Does this help?

http://www.scl.utah.edu/computers/mac/help/languages.html

[Akilldema]

I'm no guru, but on my macbook pro running osx 10.4, there's a flag in the upper right hand corner to the left of the clock. Click the flag and there will be an american one there, or possibly british, etc, click that. If that's not there, the option at the bottom of that tab is "open international". From there you can scroll down to the american flag, which should return it to the prior settings. Hope that helped.

[tommymac]

youre in ny? thanx for the phone call:td: :lol:

[Particle Man]

way to stay on task Tom :lol:

[tommymac]

way to stay on task Tom :lol:

you dont want me offering computer advice anyway :lol:

[Bluestreak]

you dont want me offering computer advice anyway :lol:

I saw you posted in this thread and I was like WTF? :lol:

[Particle Man]

true :lol:

[thunderex]

Here you go:

http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b19/jeffnee/?action=view&current=language.flv

[Tsunami]

Thanks guy! Love the tutorial Thunderex, it was awesome! The computer is fixed!

Tommy, due to family drama, I just ended up coming in for the wedding and flying right out. I was going to stay for a week and catchup with everyone but I think I would have killed a family member. I have to go back when there is less going on and when it gets warmer since my mother refused to turn on the heat. It was 61 degrees in the house.

[tommymac]

Thanks guy! Love the tutorial Thunderex, it was awesome! The computer is fixed!

Tommy, due to family drama, I just ended up coming in for the wedding and flying right out. I was going to stay for a week and catchup with everyone but I think I would have killed a family member. I have to go back when there is less going on and when it gets warmer since my mother refused to turn on the heat. It was 61 degrees in the house.

fair enough, just dont forget we now have plenty of room for guests ;)

hell curbs even going ot come up and stay, I just need to hide my beer.

[Tsunami]

fair enough, just dont forget we now have plenty of room for guests ;)

hell curbs even going ot come up and stay, I just need to hide my beer.

Do you have heat and hot water? My mom apparently doesn't get much use of her boiler either. I was just there for the weekend running around like a chicken with its head cutoff- it was too short of a stay to even recuperate before jumping back on the plane. I just spent the last 2 days sleeping.

[tommymac]

Do you have heat and hot water? My mom apparently doesn't get much use of her boiler either. I was just there for the weekend running around like a chicken with its head cutoff- it was too short of a stay to even recuperate before jumping back on the plane. I just spent the last 2 days sleeping.

Sure do, and central air, and dont forget the big ass pool (untill I get a few alligators and make it a swamp :lol:)

[marko138]

I'm no guru, but on my macbook pro running osx 10.4, there's a flag in the upper right hand corner to the left of the clock. Click the flag and there will be an american one there, or possibly british, etc, click that. If that's not there, the option at the bottom of that tab is "open international". From there you can scroll down to the american flag, which should return it to the prior settings. Hope that helped.
Huh, my macbook pro doesn't have a flag up there.

[Papa_Complex]

Huh, my macbook pro doesn't have a flag up there.

You have to go into the International settings and enable "Input Menu" to get it. You can change the language settings by going to the Apple logo button / System Preferences / International.

[anthonyk]

Heh, I did that to my old iPod once. It was a bitch to figure out the menus to get it back to English. :lmao: