Companion Setup Tour Part 2: Multilingual User Interface Languages
Last week on our tour we discussed Companion Programs. This week, we will be covering…
…the installation of Multilingual User Interface (MUI) languages!
Adding MUIs to your POSready installation allows you localize the operating system to any of the 33 available languages (including English). These MUIs are functionally the same as those available for Windows XP SP3. However, though functionally the same, the base Windows XP MUIs cannot be run directly on POSReady, and vice versa.
To install MUIs on an installation of POSReady, simply access the MUI installation wizard from Companion Setup, select a set of languages, and click Install. The wizard will take over and, for each language, install the appropriate Windows XP MUI, the XP SP3 MUI Update, the Internet Explorer MUI, and the appropriate Windows Media Player MUI, if applicable. What could have been several separate installations has been boiled down to one – you can’t beat that!
In the screenshot above you may notice that, in this example, the Chinese MUIs are disabled. This is because their corresponding language collection (East Asian) has not yet been installed. Additional language collections can either be installed during the initial setup process when selecting input languages, or they can be installed afterward within the OS through the “Regional and Language Options” Control Panel applet.