Japanese Computer?

My roommate Ginny (as seen on left) managed to get super drunk this weekend with her brothers and forgot to write her German midterm essay which was due... today. Sunday night she comes and tells me and instead of staying up all night and writing it, she decided to go to sleep and wake up at the crack of dawn to write it then. So from 5.30am to about 10.30am she was completely immersed in German and writing that essay. When I got back from my own classes she was huddled up on the floor in her usual odd position searching for how to turn her computer completely German. She tinkered and I nosed in every now and then to see if it worked.

Turns out that for both Vista and Windows 7 to change the language on the computer you have to buy some separate packs or something or other and we both were having no part of it. She kept looking though and I cheered her on. After about 15minutes of silence she whispers that she put a link on my facebook wall and that she found a program that would change her computer to German at no cost. She told me that I should change my computer to Japanese, but that her's would just be the test run to see if the program worked.

It did!

Everything was in German! The welcome screen, the start menu, everything. So with her enthusiasm, I decided to change my computer to Japanese. Besides, the best way to learn it is if you're constantly immersed in it, no?

Here is the link if anyone wants it: http://www.froggie.sk/
There is a way to change it back if you don't like it, so don't freak if it gets overwhelming. I cannot claim anything for it's safety, but so far my computer is amazing and EVERYTHING is in Japanese. I figured I might as well since i already changed my iPod to Japanese and my facebook to Japanese, why not my laptop?

It is sooooo cool. I am learning kanji left and right, it's blowing my mind. It's a nice feeling to know that if anyone tries to nose into my computer they wouldn't be able to read anything, hahaha~ Although I think it'd piss my Dad or my boyfriend off if they ever had to use it... Ah well~

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