East Asian Language Packs - Really Strange Problem

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Heofz

Heofz

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Hello guys,

I really hope you can help me with this one, because I'm stuck and I really need to find a solution quickly as I'm trying to get Korean input working for my mum's new PC before she arrives back in the UK tomorrow evening (its a surprise, heh).

Here's the problem: It's running a fresh install of Windows XP Pro SP3, I've installed the East Asian Language Pack without any problem. Windows didn't ask for any extra files or so, it just happily installed everything and then asked me to reboot my machine. So I did.

The problem is, after I did this, when I go to:

Regional and Language Options > Languages > Details > Add...

Korean still doesn't appear in the list of the languages available (nor do the other East Asian Languages). So basically despite having done the installation, I'm still unable to use Korean input with this computer.

I've also tried downloading various versions of the East Asian language packs as well as MUI patches of microsoft but no joy... any ideas on how I can fix this? :(

Thanks in advance

Edit: oh, and it seems to have no problem displaying asian characters; there just isn't an option to add it as an input :(
 
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Yep, and it copied files etc and everything went smoothly, then it asked to restart my PC, but afterwards the languages still don't appear in the list :(
 
Yeah I tried installing again and when I was in the windows install wizard where you choose your language settings (e.g. english (US) or english (UK) etc), after ticking the install east asian languages, I still couldn't see Korean/Japanese/Chinese listed, and this was in the setup wizard, so actually come to think of it, it might be down to the fact that the copy of windows I used has SP3 slipstreamed and a few updates up to sept 2008 added to it. :confused:

My dad's PC had XP installed using a different cd (SP2 slipstreamed), and adding Korean worked straight away.

I was just wondering if there's a way I can surgically fix the problem rather than just install a different version of windows, because they're just a few dll files etc, after all :/
 
They should run, i think i have used them before on xp. You'll need both. One for reading, one for typing. One of the other microsoft pages links to them, even though it is talking about xp.
 
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I also don't have office XP, only 2007 :p, and it requires me to download a genuine validation for office xp :/
 
EDIT: Bah, apparently you have to pay for the language packs for 2007, so maybe the older ones don't work :/
Just checked on the MS website, they don't offer language pack downloads for windows anymore, they are all on the cd only.
 
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