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Open Start -> Settings -> Control Panel and then open
Regional Options:
In order to do this installation, you must have Administrator
privileges when logged in.
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The lower part of this panel is what you want to look at first.
You can scroll through the list to see what languages have already
been installed (as indicated by a check in the box); most default
installations from the factory do not have any other language packs
installed.
Check all the languages that you think a user might want to use
on this machine. Now you are ready to begin the process of installing
system resources for the checked language(s).
Very import: Be sure you have the Windows 2000 CD ready.
These optional components are rarely pre-installed.
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| In this example, I am installing the Japanese language.
Once you have selected the languages you want to install (you can
select as many as you think you might need), then click the "Apply"
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| You might get this warning panel. As mentioned above,
the multilingual system resources are rarely available on the hard
drive as part of the factory install of Windows 2000. You will have
to obtain a CD install version of Windows 2000 to access these components.
Any CD will do, it does not have to be the one that was used to install
Windows 2000 originally. Use the "Browse" button to locate
the named file in to the folder indicated in the field. The directories
will be the same on the CD; the click "Retry" |
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All the components are then copied over.
When finished, Windows will want to reboot (no surprise here).
After rebooting, return the Regional Options panel to enable selected
languages. This can be done on a per account basis. In other words,
if the administrator has installed Cyrillic, Chinese (Traditional),
and Japanese; user A who wants to use Cyrillic will log in and enable
Cyrillic input locales for their account; user B who wants to use
Chinese (Traditional) & Japanese will log in and enable those
input locales, etc. See Part 2.
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| At this point you have installed the necessary
components for the language(s) you have selected on your machine;
you will probably be asked to reboot the machine and it is a good
idea to log in again as administrator to make sure the installation
is complete. To actually use the(se) language(s), you
will have to setup input locales on a per user basis (part 2).
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| If you have any questions of comments about this demonstration,
please contact Robert at californiadream dot com. |
