Folder Menus in Foreign Language

[Guest]

I recently tried to add Serbian Cyrillic proofing tools (for spell-checking)
to my Windows XP Home / Office 2003 system. There was no Serbian Cyrillic
MUI and it appeared that I needed to add the Office XP LIP. So I did. Big
mistake—suddenly my whole system was in Serbian Cyrillic. (Never download
when all the instructions are in a language you don’t understand!)

I did a system restore to the day before and almost everything was back in
English. But a thing or two still seem to be in Serbian—e.g., the menu bar
and menus for all Windows folders, and some text in dialog boxes.

I checked Control Panel > Regional & Language Settings, and they all specify
English. Also, I checked the Folder Options and Display Properties settings
and didn’t see anything wrong there, either.

Since I was desperate, I also went to RegEdit, searched for Serbian and
changed all of those values (for example, at
MyComputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\KeyboardLayouts\0000081a)
to English (US), EXCEPT for where it seemed to be part of a listing of all
possible languages.

Finally, I saw the Aug. 21, 2005 “Foreign Language Shows Up†post by Torgeir
Bakken (MVP) in this newsgroup (WindowsXP.General) and duly checked the DLL
files he suggested, but nothing there was amiss, either.

Can anyone suggest what I need to fix? Thanks!

 

[David Candy]

The language strings are cached (from the dll) in the registry. If so delete the whole key. It will rebuild.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Dave, a good suggestion (and much appreciated), but unfortunately it
didn't work in this case. I deleted this key then rebooted, but my folder
menus are still in Serbian.

Any other keys I should re-set?

 

[paulgor]

Try to re-set _system code page_ -
Control Panel/Regionla Settings/Advanced -
"Language for non-Unicode programs"


Paul
--
Regards,
Paul Gorodyansky
"Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet":
http://RusWin.net
Russian On-screen Keyboard: http://Kbd.RusWin.net

 

[buffalix]

I am kind of curious what impact it will have on the system? My
quesiton

For example, if I write a email, will my receipient which totally
english-us setting has problem reading it?

Obviously, I want to know more than this example.

Thanks