Multi Language Support
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Hey guys, Ive been shipped a development PC from Germany, and the version of XP installed does not have support for US english. I've been all over the MS support site, and suprise surprise, there isnt a topic or answer that helps me solve my problem... I cannot reinstall windows on this computer. It has all of the devopment tools and settings already installed and set, but everything is in German... Is there a single download for multi language support so i can switch the language to english while i have the computer? Ive set every possible option to english, but when i try to switch the menus and the other remaining options to english it begins searching for an \i386\lang folder that does not exist. Any ideas?
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Hey guys, Ive been shipped a development PC from Germany, and the version of XP installed does not have support for US english. I've been all over the MS support site, and suprise surprise, there isnt a topic or answer that helps me solve my problem... I cannot reinstall windows on this computer. It has all of the devopment tools and settings already installed and set, but everything is in German... Is there a single download for multi language support so i can switch the language to english while i have the computer? Ive set every possible option to english, but when i try to switch the menus and the other remaining options to english it begins searching for an \i386\lang folder that does not exist. Any ideas?
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Hey guys, Ive been shipped a development PC from Germany, and the version of XP installed does not have support for US english. I've been all over the MS support site, and suprise surprise, there isnt a topic or answer that helps me solve my problem... I cannot reinstall windows on this computer. It has all of the devopment tools and settings already installed and set, but everything is in German... Is there a single download for multi language support so i can switch the language to english while i have the computer? Ive set every possible option to english, but when i try to switch the menus and the other remaining options to english it begins searching for an \i386\lang folder that does not exist. Any ideas?
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I'm surprised that English isn't there by default, i.e. without having to install specific English versions of DLLs from the Windows CD. You could try 'forcing' the issue by setting the UI language in the registry, it's a fairly quick change and shouldn't have nay adverse effects: Add a string value for the language you want to use to
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\MUILanguageswith the name being the hex language id for English US (0409) and set the value to1. That makes English US available and determines what is displayed in the 'Language used in menus and dialogs' drop down on the 'Languages' page in regional settings in the control panel. From your posting I gather that it's when you change this that it starts asking for the cd. In that case, you can force the change by changing the following registry value:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop MultiUILanguageIdto00000409The effect of this should be instant, in that, if you open a windows dialog, you should see OK and Cancel buttons in English now. Do a restart and hopefully most strings will be in English. Hth, JK -
I'm surprised that English isn't there by default, i.e. without having to install specific English versions of DLLs from the Windows CD. You could try 'forcing' the issue by setting the UI language in the registry, it's a fairly quick change and shouldn't have nay adverse effects: Add a string value for the language you want to use to
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\MUILanguageswith the name being the hex language id for English US (0409) and set the value to1. That makes English US available and determines what is displayed in the 'Language used in menus and dialogs' drop down on the 'Languages' page in regional settings in the control panel. From your posting I gather that it's when you change this that it starts asking for the cd. In that case, you can force the change by changing the following registry value:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop MultiUILanguageIdto00000409The effect of this should be instant, in that, if you open a windows dialog, you should see OK and Cancel buttons in English now. Do a restart and hopefully most strings will be in English. Hth, JKhmmm... ive tried both, neither seem to work, i think i may just need to get an xp cd... i had to add both keys to the registry there no MUILLanguages string, i did a search on the whole registry, so i added it at the path suggested and the value to it also i tried option2 with the same resultsm, i guess i may need that XP CD
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Hey guys, Ive been shipped a development PC from Germany, and the version of XP installed does not have support for US english. I've been all over the MS support site, and suprise surprise, there isnt a topic or answer that helps me solve my problem... I cannot reinstall windows on this computer. It has all of the devopment tools and settings already installed and set, but everything is in German... Is there a single download for multi language support so i can switch the language to english while i have the computer? Ive set every possible option to english, but when i try to switch the menus and the other remaining options to english it begins searching for an \i386\lang folder that does not exist. Any ideas?
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You need the MUI-disks I believe. Windows XP comes in a special version with all languages, but you can use MUI-disks with any XP installation.
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Hey guys, Ive been shipped a development PC from Germany, and the version of XP installed does not have support for US english. I've been all over the MS support site, and suprise surprise, there isnt a topic or answer that helps me solve my problem... I cannot reinstall windows on this computer. It has all of the devopment tools and settings already installed and set, but everything is in German... Is there a single download for multi language support so i can switch the language to english while i have the computer? Ive set every possible option to english, but when i try to switch the menus and the other remaining options to english it begins searching for an \i386\lang folder that does not exist. Any ideas?
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I have been working with multilanguage. Since a customer of mine is multinational they have some computers around with multilanguage on them. You're not gonna like this though. Multilingual user interface can only be installed on top of an English Windows XP. There's more info about it on technet[^] As a reinstall is out of the question I wish you good luck in learning German :sigh: