English Messenger, Chinese/ Japanese Games?! Help please...

Heya I have a full windows live messenger 2008 running on my laptop,
everything is in english apart from my games (and the advertisement bit at
the bottom)?! It looks like some Chinese/ Japanese/ some Asian typing.. I
opened my hotmail account when I was living in Hongkong could that be the
issue? Its not a huge problem but would be nice to understand what's going on
(and win some games!)

Thanks for your help people

Greetings,

This is because these features in Messenger are localized depending on the locale/country set
in your Windows Live ID and not what language version of Messenger you're using (or Windows).

You can change your locale here:
https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
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"waiki_88" <> wrote in message
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> Heya I have a full windows live messenger 2008 running on my laptop,
> everything is in english apart from my games (and the advertisement bit at
> the bottom)?! It looks like some Chinese/ Japanese/ some Asian typing.. I
> opened my hotmail account when I was living in Hongkong could that be the
> issue? Its not a huge problem but would be nice to understand what's going on
> (and win some games!)
>
> Thanks for your help people

Yeahhh it works!!!! Every bit of my messenger is in English now!!!
Thank you so much Jonathan x's


"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> This is because these features in Messenger are localized depending on the locale/country set
> in your Windows Live ID and not what language version of Messenger you're using (or Windows).
>
> You can change your locale here:
> https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
> --
>
>
> "waiki_88" <> wrote in message
> news:4CC9DA64-F09F-41F4-8B10-...
> > Heya I have a full windows live messenger 2008 running on my laptop,
> > everything is in english apart from my games (and the advertisement bit at
> > the bottom)?! It looks like some Chinese/ Japanese/ some Asian typing.. I
> > opened my hotmail account when I was living in Hongkong could that be the
> > issue? Its not a huge problem but would be nice to understand what's going on
> > (and win some games!)
> >
> > Thanks for your help people
>
>

Hi,

Sure thing

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
--


"waiki_88" <> wrote in message
news:54FD05DA-8DB9-4E78-9BB6-...
> Yeahhh it works!!!! Every bit of my messenger is in English now!!!
> Thank you so much Jonathan x's
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> This is because these features in Messenger are localized depending on the locale/country
>> set
>> in your Windows Live ID and not what language version of Messenger you're using (or
>> Windows).
>>
>> You can change your locale here:
>> https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
>> Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
>> --
>>
>>
>> "waiki_88" <> wrote in message
>> news:4CC9DA64-F09F-41F4-8B10-...
>> > Heya I have a full windows live messenger 2008 running on my laptop,
>> > everything is in english apart from my games (and the advertisement bit at
>> > the bottom)?! It looks like some Chinese/ Japanese/ some Asian typing.. I
>> > opened my hotmail account when I was living in Hongkong could that be the
>> > issue? Its not a huge problem but would be nice to understand what's going on
>> > (and win some games!)
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help people
>>
>>