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re: Question about 'Use Multiple Languages on a Single System'
Monday, January 28, 2002 at 8:20 am
Posted by Brad
(3 messages posted)
I am having the same problem but the other way around. I have installed in English
but one of the users in my household would prefer to login in French. I have changed
the regional settings to french and eliminated all other options in the language
bar but it still boots into english. Now, I have looked on the Microsoft site and
there is one tech note on the subject that states something about editting the register
file and rebooting. I have not tried this yet since it could be dangerous according
to the notes at the bottom of the description. If anyone knows the real answer please
help. ...P.S., my boss' computer boots in french for his kids and english for himself.
He got his out of the box from Dell so someone out there knows how to do it.
On Wednesday, January 23, 2002 at 5:07 am, Lewis Black wrote:
>I have a question about Use
>Multiple Languages on a Single System:
>
>
>How do you change all the desktop icons and all menus to english in xp? I have a
>system preinstalled in french and I have tries the regional settings change without
>any sucess.
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re: Question about 'Use Multiple Languages on a Single System'
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 2:00 pm
Posted by CHOC BANDLERO
(1 messages posted)
G'day I am from sydney australia, I have tried to change my whole menus to french
in the regional settings but it dont work...I shouldnt use pirate software but ...
I dont think thats the problem, Nonone in Australia sells a localised version of
XP in French anyway...Please help me if you can.
Choca
On Monday, January 28, 2002 at 8:20 am, Brad wrote:
>I am having the same problem but the other way around. I have installed in English
>but one of the users in my household would prefer to login in French. I have changed
>the regional settings to french and eliminated all other options in the language
>bar but it still boots into english. Now, I have looked on the Microsoft site and
>there is one tech note on the subject that states something about editting the register
>file and rebooting. I have not tried this yet since it could be dangerous according
>to the notes at the bottom of the description. If anyone knows the real answer
please
>help. ...P.S., my boss' computer boots in french for his kids and english for himself.
> He got his out of the box from Dell so someone out there knows how to do it.
>
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re: Question about 'Use Multiple Languages on a Single System'
Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 11:13 am
Posted by Brad
(3 messages posted)
Hi, here is the long story: I searched and searched many forums. I called my local
ms rep to find more info - they never returned my call. I bugged and bugged my local
retailer and he couuldn't get a copy nor could figure out what I was talking about.
I called a friend of mine that works for ms and we after several weeks of email
determined that I cannot buy the MULanguage pack software. It is only available
to corporate or multiseat licensed users. There are apparently 5 disks that cover
off all of the languages that ms supports in this bundle called the MULpack. I would
have paid for the software but ms does not believe that there are MUL on retail machines.
In the end I found a "corporate" friend who lent me the disk that contained french
and I did an install on my machine at home - that went easy. Today my wife works
in french and myself in english - sorry ms I would have paid for it but you forced
me to grab a copy.
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 2:00 pm, CHOC BANDLERO wrote:
>G'day I am from sydney australia, I have tried to change my whole menus to french
>in the regional settings but it dont work...I shouldnt use pirate software but ...
>I dont think thats the problem, Nonone in Australia sells a localised version of
>XP in French anyway...Please help me if you can.
>
>Choca
>
>
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re: Question about 'Use Multiple Languages on a Single System'
Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 10:09 am
Posted by Nick
(1 messages posted)
It's called MUI (multilingual user interface) and you are correct, it's only available
to corporate customers, or people with an MSDN subscription. It'll only run on Windows
XP Professional, or Windows 2000 Professional (different discs for each respective
OS)
here's the link for xp pro:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/planning/multilingual/default.asp
Once you get it loaded though,it's really quite nice.
Keep in mind that you can also do that sort of thing with gnome running on redhat
linux (or any other similar config)
-nick
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 11:13 am, bd wrote:
>Hi, here is the long story: I searched and searched many forums. I called my local
>ms rep to find more info - they never returned my call. I bugged and bugged my
local
>retailer and he couuldn't get a copy nor could figure out what I was talking about.
> I called a friend of mine that works for ms and we after several weeks of email
>determined that I cannot buy the MULanguage pack software. It is only available
>to corporate or multiseat licensed users. There are apparently 5 disks that cover
>off all of the languages that ms supports in this bundle called the MULpack. I
would
>have paid for the software but ms does not believe that there are MUL on retail
machines.
> In the end I found a "corporate" friend who lent me the disk that contained french
>and I did an install on my machine at home - that went easy. Today my wife works
>in french and myself in english - sorry ms I would have paid for it but you forced
>me to grab a copy.
>
>
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