How do I convert 98 SE and/or 2000 so its in Ukranian?

[yukichigai]

Yes, I'm dead serious. I need to convert a copy of either Windows 98 SE or Windows 2000 Pro from English to Ukranian. I tried setting it in the languages menu but that got me nowhere. I'm hoping there's some kind of official Microsoft patch or something but I have as of yet to find it. Anybody know where one can find such a thing?

P.S. If Ukranian isn't available Russian might do.

 

[thunderhorse]

yukichigai, if you would have gone to google and put in windows 98 to russian you would have found annoyances.org. Just helping. Please let us know if it helped.

 

[yukichigai]

Hrm. I'd heard there was some way to convert it with some manner of official Microsoft patch, but since there's no support offered for 98 without paying for it I can't ask. I guess I'll have to find a Russian copy of Win 98. No idea where to start looking for one, but I'll find it.

By the way, I'm not trying to enable multilingual support, I just need it to be in Ukranian. My roomie doesn't need english.

 

[vitalyzh]

If you want to type in Ukranian, you can do it through the Languages menus. But if you want the whole OS to in Ukranian you need XP Multi Language Edition.

Vitaly

 

[drag]

You could try to check out linux. It usually has very good language support.

Most countries have there own linux distro. Connectiva is a distro that is like Redhat for South American and other Spanish-style language speaking countries. In south-eastern asia countries like Tailand and stuff Linux is beating out Microsoft due to low cost, legalities, and good language support. Isreal has dropped contracts with MS in favor of Linux because of the ability to modify linux to more properly support right-to-left reading languages like hebrew.

I wouldn't be suprised if there are a few flavors specificly geared for Ukranian languages. I don't know how easy would it be to convert Redhat to Ukranian, but if you can find a specific distro that is designed specificly for Ukranian or Russian or whatever it would probably be much more pleasent for your roomate to use then to take a English-centric Windows or Linux OS and then convert it to Ukranian.

I did a search in google for "Ukranian Linux" and found a couple project pages, but I can't tell what is going on, well, because I don't speak ukranian.

It's worth looking into anyways.

 

[drag]

I mean Ukrainian, not Ukranian. sorry

 

[yukichigai]

Meh, I've given up spellchecking the names of other languages/countries. Anyway, I'll see if I can get him up to speed with linux. At the very worst I'll dual-boot it.

Oh yes, this is to run on a K6-2 333Mhz using an XT mobo (That is to say hard on/off switch, not mobo-controlled) I tried booting an existing install of 2000 and it told me it couldn't boot because it couldn't control some mobo function. Not sure if that was just a limitation of the install or what, but regardless I doubt I can get XP Multilingual running on that computer just by virtue of CPU speed.

 

[thunderhorse]

Try www.windows-freeware.com/programs/irfanview.asp

Hope this helps.

 

[thunderhorse]

OK, I've found some more sites but a couple are in Russian and I can't read them.
www.grinder.nl/features.php
www.bezpeka.com/archives/arcnews/28-05-3-06-01.html
www.sftcomp.ru/htdocs/price/ws_b_sys.htm

I think one may be a online vendor. Hope this helps. I'm trying.