john@rarebooksinjapan.com wrote:

> Here's another challenge for all the computer-literates out there. I
> got an English-language version of Internet Explorer easily enough, by
> downloading IE7 Beta 2. But it doesn't appear to have the usual Outlook
> Express add-on, as previous versions of IE had, so I am still left with
> the Japanese-language version of Outlook Express that was on the
> computer when I bought it.
> 
> I'd been having trouble with this even before I got the new computer.
> I'd upgraded from IE5 to IE6, making sure to select "English" as the
> required language, but Outlook insisted on loading itself in Japanese.
> That was about six months ago, and despite several attempts I still
> haven't managed to get it to load an English-language version.

One obvious solution would be to switch to Mozilla Thunderbird, but I 
suppose you didn't want to hear that one. ;-)

There does not seem to be a simple way to download Outlook Express from 
the MS Web site. It comes with the operating system and I don't think 
you can uninstall it completely even if you want to. That means that all 
they offer for download are updates, which of course automatically 
default to the language of the version you already have installed.

One option would be to install the English version of Windows XP on your 
computer, but that is not something for the faint of heart. It is a very 
nice solution, if you go ahead and do it, because you can still run any 
Japanese software you may have (with the correct settings) as well as 
handling Japanese text in other programs, such as English MS Word, 
Internet Explorer, and, yes, Outlook Express.

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