Anyone with non-English Win7? I've a little question

xpmore · 21 Apr 2010

I'm working on a tool called XP-More, which will help manage Windows 7 Virtual Machines. When run, the tool first tries to locate the Virtual Machines folder. I wasn't able to get the folder's location from the system, so I'm relying on the location of another system folder. My problem is that I don't know if the VM folder's name is always "Virtual machines", even on non-English installations.

So, if you have a non-English installation (pro and above), do you have the following folder:
C:\Users\<your user>\Virtual Machines ?
If not, is the Virtual Machine part translated to your language?

Thanks!

Kari · 21 Apr 2010

As most of the folder names, Virtual Machines is also always in local language. For instance, the folder name in my different accounts is:

In Finnish: Näennäiskoneet
- näennäis = virtual
- koneet = machines
In Swedish: Virtuella datorer
- virtuella = virtual
- datorer = computers
In German: Virtuelle Computer
- virtuelle = virtual
- computer = computers

Kari

xpmore · 21 Apr 2010

Thanks, Kari, though this is not the answer I was hoping to get...

Would you mind helping me out a bit?

Would it be possible for you to search the registry and look for values containing, say, the string Näennäiskoneet? I hope the VM's path would be defined somewhere in the registry, so I'll be able to get it from there.

Kari · 21 Apr 2010

xpmore said:

Thanks, Kari, though this is not the answer I was hoping to get...

Would you mind helping me out a bit?

Would it be possible for you to search the registry and look for values containing, say, the string Näennäiskoneet? I hope the VM's path would be defined somewhere in the registry, so I'll be able to get it from there.

I dont think this is going to help you; I'm using an English Seven Enterprise with Finnish, Swedish and German language packs to allow user accounts in four different languages (see the attached screenshot of my logon screen, a pic explains it better than words).

The register values in my system are pointing to MuiCache locations, which IMO means that a native Finnish system would have this key in different places.

Anyway, the key @C:\Windows\system32\VMCPropertyHandler.dll,-507 has a value Näennäiskoneet (Finnish for Virtual Machines) in following places:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\MuiCache\20C\70BC3220
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache\20C\70BC3220
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2644251694-1381639486-471751829-1011\Software\Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache\20C\70BC3220
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2644251694-1381639486-471751829-1011_Classes\Local Settings\MuiCache\20C\70BC3220

Kari