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changing "starting windows" message and other MUI questions
A friend has win 7 x32 Ultimate SP1 installed on a laptop. He installed the Bulgarian MUI language pack. According to Msoft, this language hasn't been fully converted for the English version of the OS. There is no information that says what areas are fully converted and which ones not for the OS. The Internet Exploer 10 has the Bulgarian lang also installed.
He wants to send this laptop to his mother-in-law overseas who knows no English but wants to play on the computer and is embarrassed to let others know she knows nothing about computers.
The problem is, the OS messages on shutdown are in Bulgarian, but not all the startup messages.
In particular is the "Starting Windows" message on bootup. I don't see a tutorial on how to edit some file to check the string messages to see which ones aren't translated and have him translate the rest to Bulgarian, save the file and test it to make sure the messages are correct for her. I see the shutdown message tutorial and the Welcome one, but not bootup.
Is this typically the case for any "not fully translated" MUI installed on an English Win 7 (or vista)? What if the Win 7 was orginally installed with the Bulgarian native version of the OS? That is the version sold in Bulgaria would be fully translated and one would then have to install the English MUI. Maybe this is the route to take.
Are there any projects out there whereby people use resource hacker to convert non-fully translated MUIs for win 7 into a fully translated version of the OS? Then one would unzip the updated file versions onto their system to bring it up to a fully translated OS.
What about extracting the MUI download and using Resource hacker to correct/update the translations and then repackage and install this updated MUI onto the English version? Hence ones own custom MUI pack.
Another question is, I want to use dism to patch my AIO with all the hotfixes using the hotfix rollup, Msoft reliability and improvement fixes, and sec updates onto my Win 7 SP1, plut dotnetfix and other programs such as IE 10. However, MSoft says that if I install this patched Win 7 Sp1 and then try to install a Language MUI, that it breaks some of the translations. One must install the MUI before patching SP1 to prevent this. Is this true? Is there a MUI service pack for win 7 sp1 out yet?
I've tried this, but no change in the "starting windows" message in the Bulgarian language
open elevated CMD and do these 2 commands :
bcdedit /set {current} locale BG-bg
bcdboot %WinDir% /l BG-bg
Anybody play with "Visual bcdeditor" at ,
Visual BCD Editor - Windows 7|Vista
Last edited by Brink; 01 Jun 2013 at 18:17. Reason: removed broken image