pending requests language

I am English language based but live in Greece. Everything on my PC is in
English, except the locale and time zone setting, and all programs work fine
in English except 'MSN pending requests' which give me a stream of stuff in
Greek which I cannot understand - how do I change this?

Mark

Greetings Mark,

The pending requests should (sorry, I'm not in a position to test it at the moment, so this
is an educated guess) be using the Passport/Windows Live ID locale on your account as entered
here:
https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx

Check it out and see what country you have set there as that's where all the other resources
in Messenger get their language from (besides the UI of the application itself).

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"MarkT" <> wrote in message
news:4AC1A6EB-348C-4D5E-BD38-...
>I am English language based but live in Greece. Everything on my PC is in
> English, except the locale and time zone setting, and all programs work fine
> in English except 'MSN pending requests' which give me a stream of stuff in
> Greek which I cannot understand - how do I change this?
>
> Mark
>

Tks Jonathan, I changed my 'location' to the UK using the link yu provided
and it worked - everything in English. I then changed the time zone to 'none'
and I have the correct local time in Greece. A bit presumptuous though if yu
ask me, just because you are located somewhere the program shud not assume
that the local language is the one yu prefer to use - what happens with the
thousands of ex pats working in China and the middle east ? - they must get
very confused!

Tks again....
Mark




"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> Greetings Mark,
>
> The pending requests should (sorry, I'm not in a position to test it at the moment, so this
> is an educated guess) be using the Passport/Windows Live ID locale on your account as entered
> here:
> https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx
>
> Check it out and see what country you have set there as that's where all the other resources
> in Messenger get their language from (besides the UI of the application itself).
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "MarkT" <> wrote in message
> news:4AC1A6EB-348C-4D5E-BD38-...
> >I am English language based but live in Greece. Everything on my PC is in
> > English, except the locale and time zone setting, and all programs work fine
> > in English except 'MSN pending requests' which give me a stream of stuff in
> > Greek which I cannot understand - how do I change this?
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
>

Hi Mark,

I hear you, and I had hoped in the last Passport update that this was going to change, but it
appears not. Maybe sometime in the future...

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
--

"MarkT" <> wrote in message
news:4B3ED7F3-E48F-4921-BBAB-...
> Tks Jonathan, I changed my 'location' to the UK using the link yu provided
> and it worked - everything in English. I then changed the time zone to 'none'
> and I have the correct local time in Greece. A bit presumptuous though if yu
> ask me, just because you are located somewhere the program shud not assume
> that the local language is the one yu prefer to use - what happens with the
> thousands of ex pats working in China and the middle east ? - they must get
> very confused!
>
> Tks again....
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings Mark,
>>
>> The pending requests should (sorry, I'm not in a position to test it at the moment, so
>> this
>> is an educated guess) be using the Passport/Windows Live ID locale on your account as
>> entered
>> here:
>> https://account.live.com/EditProf.aspx
>>
>> Check it out and see what country you have set there as that's where all the other
>> resources
>> in Messenger get their language from (besides the UI of the application itself).
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
>> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>> --
>>
>> "MarkT" <> wrote in message
>> news:4AC1A6EB-348C-4D5E-BD38-...
>> >I am English language based but live in Greece. Everything on my PC is in
>> > English, except the locale and time zone setting, and all programs work fine
>> > in English except 'MSN pending requests' which give me a stream of stuff in
>> > Greek which I cannot understand - how do I change this?
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>>
>>