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I'm Brazillian. I speak Portuguese. However, I often prefer to have programs in English because it is easier to communicate with the rest of the world, and because almost always the translations suck. Sometimes they suck so bad that we can't even understand what some options are supposed to be. What's more, many technical words should not be translated, else users won't know exactly what the developers meant.

Today, I managed to make NVIDIA Control Panel be displayed in English. This one is particularly troublesome because there is no option to change the language.

The solution is quite simple, but damn quick and dirty: just delete the DLLs that contain the localized strings. Yeah, that's it, delete them and be happy with your NVIDIA Control Panel in English. Please look at the following links for complete instructions:

• Forcing English language in nVidia Control Panel
  
• NVIDIA Forums > How do I change the Control Panel language?
  
• NVIDIA Forums > Control Panel language
  

Also note that those forum threads are from september/october 2006. Today is May 2009 and we still have the same issue. Let me quote what RejZoR said in one of those forum threads:

Why is there no language selection? Shouldn't be more than 30 lines of code to do that.

That's exactly what I keep asking to myself...