Well, the situation is rather simple... or not. I have several systems which have the OS installed in a language I don't understand. When I try to run the OUI I get it in that language and even though I've performed a few dozen installations and could probably do it in my sleep by now, I do need to make sure I'm not installing the wrong thing. It's even more complicated when it's an eastern language (japanese). In unix systems I basically solve this with and environment variable (NLS_LANG, NLS_LANGUAGE, NLS_TERRITORY for those of you who wonder) but I have found no similar solution for windows systems. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much Alan Bort Oracle Certified Professional -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l