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by tom.greendyk
Sure...I got this from the Microsoft KnowledgeBase web site.
To add an additional language in Windows 2000, follow these steps:
Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click Regional Settings.
Click the General tab, click to select the check box next to the appropriate language group you wish to install, and then click Apply. The system will either prompt for a Windows 2000 CD-ROM or access the system files across the network. Once the language is installed, Windows 2000 will prompt you to restart the computer.
To enable a newly added language and specify a keyboard layout in Windows 2000, follow these steps:
Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click Regional Settings.
Click the Input Locales tab.
In the Input Locales box, click the appropriate language, and then click Properties.
In the Keyboard Layout box, click the appropriate keyboard layout, click OK, and then click OK.
Hope this helps!
Tom G
by tom.greendyk
After re-reading your question, I realized that this is probably not what you were looking for.
If you're referring to changing the language of the operating system menus, etc. that you're prompted for when you install -- I can't say that I know.
Tom G
by nick_t
My company has a number of Japanese people in the Australian office which I have to support. We have had to do a similar thing on my Windows 2000 servers because of the need for our backup program to be able to back up the Japanese (double-byte character set file names etc). In order to get this to work I had to install the Japanese language pack on the server and make the default language Japanese (good grief). This would seem to be a similar scenario to yours, except that you have a German OS and want to install English.
I suggest you find the Windows 2000 multi-language pack CD (if you are a Microsoft Select customer you will already have it) and give it a try. In our case, when I ran the install, English showed up as already installed (as your would expect) but in your case I would expect that you will find it un-checked. Simply check the box and it will install the necessary files atc. When you do this it asks you what you want the default language to be for non-unicodeprograms, in my case I had to choose Japanese, but you would be able to select English. From memory, there is also a place in this process where you get to choose the default language for menus in Windows.
Generally this process is pretty easy, although you will have to re-boot the server after installing the language pack. If you do not have the multi-language pack, contact you local Microsoft supplier, they should be able to supply you with a copy. I am not sure if this is a chargeable product, but I don't think so, you probably just have to pay a few dollars for the media.
Hope this helps.
Nick
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