How to switch to English texts on Japanese W2000 Pro?

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I need to install W2000 Pro Japanese version in order to test our
software. So I downloaded the iso image of the setup CD from MSDN
downloads and tried to install. After some fiddling I managed to get
through it all and I can log in to the system. It needs some
additional setup concerning the security settings, for example i found
that even though I am logged on as a user with admin priviliges I
cannot save a screenshot file to C:\, there is always a Japanese
message box shown and then it fails. Only saving to My Pictures seems
to work. :-(

But it is *very* difficult to do stuff when you cannot read
Japanese...

So I hoped that by switching the locale for the logged on user (me) I
could replace the Japanese texts with English while still keeping the
basic Japanese operating system. And then of course set up the system
properly.

Is this possible at all, and if so how do I get it done?

/Bo
 
You should get Japanese-enabled W2k image instead of Japanese localized one.
Install English W2k and add Japanese locale. Not sure whether Japanese
enabled and localized versions are equal, though.
 
You should get Japanese-enabled W2k image instead of Japanese localized one.
Install English W2k and add Japanese locale. Not sure whether Japanese
enabled and localized versions are equal, though.
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I tried before installing W2000 MultiLanguage edition and then
creating different users with separate locales, one of which was
Japanese. But it does not work properly, the applications do not
display Kanji characters properly in all areas. They display on the
application forms, but for example on the menus there are only garbled
nonsense output when we set the texts to Kanji.
But the same applications running on a pure Japanese version works OK
also in the menu area.
So we want to install the Japanese edition of W2000. Therefore I
downloaded the W2000 Japanese CD image from Microsoft MSDN Subscriber
downloads and used that CD for installation (hard but doable).

But I hoped it would be possible to change the texts to USEnglish (but
using MSMincho character set) so we could read the texts while setting
up the system properties (being non-Japanese ourselves).

Of course I don't know if it is even possible to do, but that is why I
am asking here.
Thanks,

Bo
 
Did you play with fonts (Appearance) in Japanese-enabled system? I've heard
some fonts like Tahoma do not support Japanese.
 
Did you play with fonts (Appearance) in Japanese-enabled system? I've heard
some fonts like Tahoma do not support Japanese.
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We set the font in *our* applications to MSMincho and then load a
different text file written in Japan. Almost all controls then display
correctly (also in my US-English XP-Pro with Japanese language
support). But some controls including the application menus display
rubbish in this case.
But if we run the same app with the same settings and language file in
a Japanese Windows version also the menus display correctly.

So we have found that we need to install "pure" Japanese versions of
W2000, XP and W2003 to test our software on. But the snag is that so
far I have not been able to switch the display texts from Japanese (I
am now talking about the Windows screens, not our own app screens).
This makes it difficult to set up the system like we need since we
cannot read Japanese....

/Bo
 
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