Marvel wrote:
> "CL" <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:gnleo0$o0b$1@news.motzarella.org...
>> Marvel wrote:
>>> When in Japan on the network
>>> The ISP is Japanese and when I Google something Internet Explorer 7 
>>> automatically brings up the Japanese page.
>>>
>>> How to get the English version of stuff?.
>>>
>>> I don't want the Japanese versions
>>>
>>>  running Vista.
>> Uninstall Vista and replace it with an OS that works.  At the very least, 
>> use a real web browser like Firefox.
>>
>> ... and you can also force your location setting to US and English ... 
>> somehow, but not being a WIN or IE user, I don't know the secret handshake 
>> nor the magic incantation you recite while you twist the Magic Decoder 
>> Ring.
>>
>> In Firefox, it's three clicks of the mouse ...
> 
> Thanks for the swift and information packed reply.

Service with a sardonic smile.  That's our motto.

> At least now I know the problem can be solved by shouting at the monitor and 
> banging the console.

That's actually Number Three on the Microsoft Self Support Manual.  The 
first thing you should do is type a description of the problem into your 
browser and wait for www.microsoft.com to respond that there is no 
record of similar problems in the database, but here are links to 500 
Microsoft Partners who will sell you a new program that may or may not 
fix the problem.  Then you call Tech Support (sic) who tell you that 
"they all do that."

In all seriousness, somewhere in your setup, there is (or was in 
previous IE versions) a place for you to select a default language to 
override the "on-the-fly language selection" (sic) process.  In Firefox, 
for example, you can predispose the browser to search and report results 
in English only, list English solutions first, or rank all hits by 
relevance to the original query.  MS invented that away from Mozilla and 
now has it's own shiny set of tools that give you things to select and 
buttons to push.  Unfortunately, or not, I don't avail myself of IE's 
"features" and cannot give you exact addresses; only tell you that 
they're in the neighborhood.

-- 
CL