The backup software for Windows determines during installation what language to use from the language the Windows operating system displays in. In other words, if your Windows operating system is in Italian, when you install the backup software, it is set to display in Italian. Your McAfee Online Backup administrator may pre-determine the language for the backup software, overriding the automatic language selection.
If you cannot change this setting and you use Windows, you may be able to resolve this issue yourself. For more information, see If Settings Are Greyed Out in the McAfee Online Backup Backup Software for Windows. You may not be able to change this setting if your account administrator is managing it for you.
Some messages provided by the Windows backup software depend entirely on the operating system's language. If you require those messages to be in the language you choose, you can change the language of your Windows operating system. You may need to install the Windows Multilingual User Interface (MUI) appropriate for your operating system. You can find the MUI for your operating system and supporting information online from Microsoft Corporation. For information about doing this, search at http://microsoft.com for language or MUI.
| Setting | What It Does | How the Windows Backup Software Uses It |
|---|---|---|
| System Locale | The ANSI code page for non-Unicode applications. After this setting is changed, the computer must be restarted for it to take effect. | This setting is not used because the McAfee Online Backup backup software for Windows is 100% Unicode. |
| User Locale | Sorting rules, date, time, number, and
currency formats. A change to this setting takes effect immediately.
Note: Some of this information may be cached, such as when using
it to select
es instead of
es-ES for the UI language, therefore, the
application may need to be restarted.
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For all sorting, and formatting of numbers and time. Notably, this also changes the language of days of the week for scheduling options, since that has to do with dates, independent of the UI language. Also, most of these settings can be completely customized. |
| User UI Language | Controls the language that the user interface is displayed in. After this setting is changed, you must log out of your Windows session and log in again for it to take effect. | To choose a language for the installer and
the application.
Note: Microsoft does not fully localize some languages in Windows
Vista. Therefore, an additional option is presented to choose the fallback
language. For example, you could choose either French or Spanish to fill in the
gaps for anything not localized to Arabic. If the backup software is not
available in the primary language (such as Arabic), the fallback language is
used (French). If the fallback language is also not available, the backup
software displays in English.
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| User Geographic Location | Physical location for local services such as news and weather. This is separate from user locale, because user locale may be set to French if you are from France and prefer French number formatting, but have moved to the US to live or work. A change to this setting takes effect immediately. | Uses your geographic location when activating a computer to automatically determine where in the McAfee cloud your files are stored. |