funny issue with localized Vista Ultimate and games folders

[LadyRoot]

Good morning everyone,


I have installed a localized Polish version of Windows Vista Ultimate x64
system and I have several problems with various system folders.

After buying, at first, I installed two games on my new Windows ;-). After
installing the remake of Settlers II, Windows has put the 'Ubisoft' folder
into main folder ('All programs') in Start Menu. So, as I always do it in
XP, I moved (drag&drop) the folder into Games folder (localized name:
'Gry').
After that, I lost my 'Gry' folder in the start menu at all... After few
minutes, as clicked 'Start' and 'All programs', i noticed the 'Games'
folder. But it is 'Games' folder, not 'Gry', as it should be in Polish
edition.

Whenever I try to rename the 'Games' folder into 'Gry', nothing happens.

Then I decided to install 'Company of Heroes'. As a game that is adverted as
'game for Windows Vista', I shouldn't notice any trouble at all.
The game installed without problems and runs perfectly.. However, I noticed
new problems with start menu shortcuts

Whenever i click 'Start' (is it still 'start' in Vista?), then 'Wszystkie
programy' (all programs) and then 'Games' (still having the English folder
name), I don't see CoH at all. Not only in 'Games', but in whole start menu
as well.
However, when I click 'Start' and the 'Gry' name on the right part of the
panel (Anna, Documents, Pictures, Music, Games), a Windows Explorer window
opens and I can see the CoH shortcut (but not the Ubisoft folder, as
mentioned above).



I wonder if someone in this group has any solution for renaming a simply
'Games' folder into 'Gry' and making all the rest work?

BTW: Vista is localized in strange way... The 'Program Files' folder on my
'c:' hard drive is not localized and stays as 'Program Files', but the other
'Program Files (x86)' is localized into 'Pliki Programów (x86)'...

 

[Sascha Benjamin Jazbec]

Vista exists only as one single core system and that is in US-english as the
Base.

The localization is only "covering" the names that are lying underneath.

On my germany Vista I see "C:\Programme" which reveals of course as
C:\Program Files

"C:\Benutzer" is "C:\users" and so on .. the same what your experience is.

Thats the way Vist is designed for better multi-language support.

Think of when it comes to updates and patches - MS can way quicker release
critical updates as they must no longer be translated in to every single
language a Windows Versio has ever been released..

It makes things smarter. You only need to know that this is now how it is,
but it is nothing hard.

To me it wasn't hard because Windows XP x64 is designed the very same - it
existed only as English version and Microsoft released weeks later a german
MUI. - and it worked the same way as now vistas MUI Support.

SJ /germany

 

[LadyRoot]

Hey

The localization is only "covering" the names that are lying underneath.

On my germany Vista I see "C:\Programme" which reveals of course as
C:\Program Files

"C:\Benutzer" is "C:\users" and so on .. the same what your experience is.

I know how it should work. Any folder (localized or system) should point to
a %system_dir%, e.g. %windir% can be c:\windows, d:\windows, c:\winnt etc. I
understand how much easier is to make an update or even an application that
installs and covers %system_dir% instead of a hundreds of possible system
folder names.

My question is, how to repair the "fission" of two folders: localized and
native.

In my case (that I mentioned in the correspondence above), I had two games
folders in start menu: one 'Games' and one 'Gry'. I _had_, because after
restart I have two folders named 'Gry'. One of them includes Windows system
games (solitaire, minesweeper etc.) and second includes my moved 'Ubisoft'
folder. None of them includes link to CoH game.
And I still cannot rename that folders or delete them from the start menu.

And the issue is not only about games. As I move any other program link from
the main folder on start menu to any subfolder (e.g. a third-party movie
player to "acessories" folder), I got either a copy of the subfolder or I
lose my links.


greetz