Changing the language of Login Window

[Peng]

I happened to buy macbook (10.4.6; 2GHz Intel Core Duo) off the eBay. When I entered the Login, I found that the Login Window's language is Brazil Portuguese, not English, like, "Senha" means Password.

I looked around the System Preference, but no luck. I tried looking this up, but it's for 10.0 to 10.3.9 only. I don't have Mac OS X 10.4.6 CD (the macbook came without it).

Is there any way to change the language of the Login Window?

 

[TheAnswer]

Open System Preferences in the Apple Menu, click the International icon. Make sure English is at the top of the list of languages. If English is not on the list, then click edit list and make sure english is checked.

Edit: Wait...it is just the Login window that is in Portuguese? It's not the whole system?

 

[mkrishnan]

Did you try the linked procedure, even though it says it only works through 10.3.9? I think that they just never updated the document. I don't see a clear reason why that procedure would not work in Tiger.

 

[Peng]

It is just the Login Window being Portuguese.

I did the procedure, but nada.

 

[TheAnswer]

Wow...if the root procedure didn't work, I'm stumped. I'll peek around a little after I finish my dinner, If WildCowboy hasn't already flown in and saved the day by then, that is.

 

[TheAnswer]

Check out this product in its demo mode, you can select Startup in the top bar, then select startup language and change it to English. I just used it on my machine to check it out and it worked like a gem.

 

[nightelf]

You can also check Cocktail.

http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/download.html

System > Startup > Startup Language.

Cocktail is great for other things too.

 

[Peng]

It works via TinkerTool!

Thanks, TheAnswer and Nightelf!

 

[Mechnoch]

For the record, in Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.10, I could not get Cocktail to fix the default loginwindow language. The standard version of TinkerTool does not have the option to change the startup language. I could only get it to work with TinkerTool System, in Demo mode. As TheAnswer previously stated, TinkerTool System can be downloaded via

http://www.bresink.de/osx/193281/download.html

 

[bousozoku]

Mine defaults to English, but I've got the ability to change it to Japanese or whatever other language I've got available in System Preferences->International because I've also got the property set up in Accounts, as shown in my screenshot.

The flag is there and you can change it, but as I said, I haven't tried to change the default.