I would like menus, help files, etc, to be displayed in Italian.How do I change the language in Windows XP Professional from English to Italian?
You cannot do that from your english version, it is a whole different software pack. You may want to get the italian version of windows xp.How do I change the language in Windows XP Professional from English to Italian?
This is a web forum, it may help.
http://www.trap17.com/index.php/how-chan…How do I change the language in Windows XP Professional from English to Italian?
Well you could boot it from your own copy if you have it. I also found a link for a Language pack from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai… If this doesn't work, you can try this process. This example is for editing unicode values for East Asian languages like Hindu.
1.Go to Control Panel%26gt;Regional and Language Options. Click on Language tab and check the option named %26quot;Install files for complex script and right to left languages%26quot;. Depending upon your requirement you can also go for %26quot;Install files for East Asia languages.%26quot; Click OK and provide the Windows XP setup CD and restart the system.
2. After restarting once again go to Control Panel%26gt;Regional and Language Options. In Regional Options tab select your language ( e.g. Hindi ) and click on Customize... .Here in Numbers %26gt; Standard Digits select your digit set and in Digit substitution select National. You can also go for some other settings in this window.
3. Type “regedit” in Run and you will have registry editor.
4. In registry editor locate the location %26quot;HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Wi…
5. Here you will see lots of string key. This is your first working area.
6. Now start Character Map and select %26quot;Mangal%26quot; font for Hindi, %26quot;Shruti%26quot; for Gujarati, “Latha” for Tamil, “Tunga” for Kannada, “Raavi” for Gurumukhi and some other for other languages.
7. Character Map can be found at
Programs%26gt;Accessories%26gt;System Tools%26gt;Character Map
If it is not there then install it from
Control Panel%26gt;Add or Remove Programs%26gt;Windows Components%26gt;Accessories and Utilities%26gt;Accessories%26gt;Character Map
8. Make some setting in combo and list boxes to find your character set.
Select -%26gt; Advanced view
Character Set -%26gt; Unicode
Group by -%26gt; All
9. Create words of your language by selecting characters from it. If you have done then copy these character. and paste it at the value of specific key in above specified location in RE.
(In the “Mangal” font select any character. You can see its integer code in status bar. This code is of 16 bit. E.g. U+0915: Devanagari Letter Ka. That’s why you can’t enter it directly from keyboard.)
10. Now come back to Registry editor (at the above specified location “H..\S..\M..”). Go down your memory lane and remember that you have seen any of this string values some where in Explorer. Yes, double click on key you want to modify and paste those words (copied in Character Map) here. And you have done it.
11. For example in Explorer you have seen text “Wave Sound” for files of ‘wav’ extension.
So find “@C:\WINDOWS\inf\unregmp2.exe,-9908” in Registry editor, double click on key, modify it by pasting those words.
12. In the same manner you can modify tool tip of Recycle Bin, My Computer, Network Connections, etc.
13. Do the same steps above to modify other values.
14. You don’t need to restart the computer. Just close the explorer windows (if opened).
Hope this helps.
