Foreign Language in Menu Bar (still...)

[Guest]

UPDATED

I recently tried to add Microsoft’s foreign language proofing tools (Serbian
Cyrillic) to my Windows XP Home / Office 2003 system. There was no MUI for
that language and it appeared that I needed to add the Office XP LIP instead.
So I did, and what a mistake! Suddenly my whole system was in Serbian
Cyrillic. (Never install something 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.

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

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

In response to my earlier post, Dave Candy in Australia suggested: “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\MUICacheâ€

It was a good suggestion (and much appreciated--thanks, Dave!), but
unfortunately, it didn’t work in this case.

It is possible (but I don't think likely) that my problem did not result
from the installation of the LIP and subsequent system restore, but rather,
from my inadvertently changing some other setting as I scrolled through the
Language Bar and other settings looking for what was wrong.

Can anyone suggest what I need to fix, reset or search for? Would
installing some sort of English (US) language pack help? Or perhaps running
one of the marvelous WinXP RegEdit fixes on Doug Knox's site at
http://www.dougknox.com?

Thanks in advance to everyone.

 

[kurttrail]

UPDATED

I recently tried to add Microsoft's foreign language proofing tools
(Serbian Cyrillic) to my Windows XP Home / Office 2003 system. There
was no MUI for that language and it appeared that I needed to add the
Office XP LIP instead. So I did, and what a mistake! Suddenly my
whole system was in Serbian Cyrillic. (Never install something 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.

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

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

In response to my earlier post, Dave Candy in Australia suggested:
"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"

It was a good suggestion (and much appreciated--thanks, Dave!), but
unfortunately, it didn't work in this case.

It is possible (but I don't think likely) that my problem did not
result from the installation of the LIP and subsequent system
restore, but rather, from my inadvertently changing some other
setting as I scrolled through the Language Bar and other settings
looking for what was wrong.

Can anyone suggest what I need to fix, reset or search for? Would
installing some sort of English (US) language pack help? Or perhaps
running one of the marvelous WinXP RegEdit fixes on Doug Knox's site
at http://www.dougknox.com?

Thanks in advance to everyone.

At least it wasn't French!

Have you tried to do a restore to a point before the Serbs invaded?

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[Guest]

Thanks, Kurt, for your reply.

Yes, I did do a system restore to the day before the problem, and that
restored 80% of the US English to my operating system. But certain things
like the menus for all my Windows folders (e.g., My Documents or Control
Panel) and most dialog box content remained in Serbian.

If I had to guess, I'd guess that there's probably a registry setting off
somewhere.

Here's why: After I did the system restore, I searched the registry for
"Serbian" and replaced several instances of it with "English (US)". I think
this was what fixed a couple minor places where Serbian was still showing up
after the system restore. (For example, the system restore fixed most of the
Control Panel icon captions, but a couple--including Administrative
Tools--remained in Serbian. Now they're back in English.) But it didn't
seem to fix the more serious problems--like Serbian folder menus.

If my guess is correct, then I'd have to find something less obvious than
"Serbian" to search for and change.

 

[Guest]

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Thanks so much guys.
Daniel