utorak, 23. siječnja 2018.

How to install additional keyboard layouts into lite Windows installations

In the world of slimmed down copies of Windows (so called lite editions) a lot of those have only one keyboard layout, and that's the English (US) layout. This problem was mentioned a few times in the comments section for Windows 10 Extreme Lite by Bob Pony; it was also a problem in MicroXP back in the day. Here's how to add more keyboard layouts.

You'll need:
Some registry editing

Other stuff you will need is located here.

The link above contains the registry file which contains all of the keyboard layouts that come preinstalled in a vanilla copy of Windows 7, together with all keyboard layout DLL files (taken out from an x86 edition of Windows 7; you can find the 64-bit version of files soon, these have to be copied into the SysWOW64 folder) which have to be copied into the system32 folder.

Once you've opened and imported the registry file and copied all of the DLL files to the system32 directory (if you're running a 32-bit machine; 64-bit users will also have to copy the DLL files into the SysWOW64 directory) you have installed them globally; you will now have to set them on a per-user basis.

Lite copies of Windows 10 often have their keyboard language control panel broken; the one on Windows 10 Extreme Lite by Bob Pony will crash after opening.

In regedit, you will have to go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload.

You will see a (Default) registry value (which should not bother you) and a registry value named 1.

This is the primary keyboard language that it set for the current user. It will probably be set to 00000409; this keyboard code stands for the English (US) keyboard layout. You can look into the registry file on the website to find your particular keyboard layout code; you can just Ctrl+F and type in the language, and you'll find it. Replace the 00000409 registry value with the code of your keyboard layout. You can add additional keyboard layouts by adding new string values and incrementing the number (ex. 1 for Croatian, 2 for English (US) and 3 for Serbian Latin).

After you've added the necessary keyboard layouts, you can log out from the account and log back in. There should be a language bar in the taskbar (if you haven't disabled it) and it should show the language you've added.

Tested on Windows 10 Extreme Lite by Bob Pony (Fall Creators Update, version 1709)

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