Additional languages in Win 7 Home (Swedish/German)

Had no problem with adding these languages in XP PRO SP3, but as I have Win 7 HOME it seems you have to have Enterprise or Ultimate version to add Swedish and German. Does anybody know of a way to work around this. Would really appreciate it as I email people in both languages.
Any help appreciated, as I have looked at MS updates as suggested by them, and am at my wits end, as there is nothing there that works, and nothing in the settings CONTROL PANEL/ Regional Language on my HD, except that it
changes the input language which is what all of the O/S uses. This sucks Big Time.........:cry
Also want to use Thunderbird as my email client, but the newer versions gets me IMAP and my provider uses POP3....

 

Windows 7 is the operating system, if you change the language in it the whole OS changes. If you have MS Office or some other program for email, the settings for changing the language are elsewhere.

Or are you using webmail and you want to change or add languages to that?

I need to add German to Office so that when I email it has the extra characters and doesn't spell check every word.

 

I thought that's what I said when I said it changes the input language which is what all of the O/S uses. This sucks Big Time.........
Sorry handygal I don't use anything MS like Office, I use Open Office Org
I know where to change the languages in the O/S it just doesn't work OK.
Thanks anyway

 

As far as I can tell looking at the MS knowledgebase article on Language packs, the Home version of Windows does not support the installation of additional languages. Sorry, seems you're SOL on this issue.

 

You did say you were looking in the OS, that's the point. Open Office has language packs. You might want to look where you are sending email from instead of the OS to see if what you are trying to accomplish is available another way. I haven't used their language pack for this function, just for opening files in another language, don't know if it will assist you or not.

 

Thanks all that replied.....you confirmed what I had seen, seems there's no workaround that anybody knows of here, and no way am I getting Ultimate for this sorry O/S.
handygal that's where the language settings are, but you have a good point in perhaps I should be checking OO.

Thanks !