Satellite A200 - Cannot change language on Toshiba OEM CD

Hoping to find some help on how to change my Toshiba Satellite A200 from Spanish Language to English.
I asked a friend to buy me this notebook from Spain, unknowing to him the OEM came in spanish language and the recovery CD as only is only spanish but i don't understand spanish and i have been finding it difficult to go about the notebook since i don't want to click the wrong thing in spanish.
Even when i install programs, it automatically installs in spanish and this is really frustrating,
Somebody HELP!!!

The notebooks are country specific products. That means that every notebook manufacturer offers product with country specific keyboard and operating system.
Toshiba recovery image is not multilingual installations image and you cannot install Vista on English using this DVD.
What you need is Microsoft Vista installations DVD on English language. Drivers, tools and utilities for your notebook on English language you can find on European Toshiba support page under http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com

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