Don't just delete registry keys!

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

Dean Harding — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:56:48 GMT

Pretty cool that it handles it so gracefully, really! I know plenty of applications would just die horribly if data they were expecting wasn't there!

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

Dan — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:12:11 GMT

This might be unrelated, but do you know what one might do if there's a language that is impossible to remove. It doesn't appear in the "Text Services and Input Languages" form, but it appears on the taskbar as one of the optional languages available.

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

Michael S. Kaplan — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:52:04 GMT

Hi Dan -- It is hard to say without more information. What input language/keyboard is it, specifically?

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

vroland — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:42:14 GMT

hi michael, nice one, where can i define in the registry to install more language options (for example english, chinese, japanese, hungarian)

thx for your help

regards,

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:25:26 GMT

You mean to add keyboards? Don't do it in the registry; do it using Regional Options unattend!

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

vroland — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:05:50 GMT

my problem is this:

when i deploy a fresh vista desktop i want to add more languages to the installed services in the text services and input languages

and make it default for all new users, i tried to add to the registry key hku\.default\keyboard layout\preload another string with the id:2 and value: 0000040e but when i made a new user he only got the default 00000409 keyboard layout

how can i do it using regional options unattend?

sorry for my english

regards,

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:09:15 GMT

You can look here

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/05/30/610505.aspx

or actually for an even better answer, here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/07/30/4126966.aspx

for the info on how to do this in >= Vista.

Don't use the registry for this. That white paper in the second blog explains how to make the change get applied to new users....

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

vroland — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:12:05 GMT

thx for your help Michael,

i'll look the url-s, they will help solving my problem

regards,

re: Don't just delete registry keys!

vroland — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:52:59 GMT

it helped, i managed to solve my problem

thx again for your help

regards,