This used to be a major headache, especially back in the days before XP... With XP, multilanguage support improved dramatically, especially with the improved MUI (multilingual User Interface), not only could you read and write in the desired language but they added so that context menus, program menus, system menus, well basically the whole OS is changed to the desired language. With 2K there is a MUI but it is not so good I think. With XP they refined it and made it better.