How to install language support without XP CD?

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You'll have to have your Windows XP CD.

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Carey Frisch
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"oceanhai" wrote:

| I would like to install East Asian language support on my XP Pro sp2
| machine but I no longer have the original CD that I used to install the
| OS. I tried borrowing a friend's CD for XP Pro sp1 and the files seemed
| to install properly from the i386\lang directory on the CD but the
| language functionality still does not work.
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| Does anyone know if you can download the language pack from MS (I can't
| find it on their site)? Otherwise, it seems that I need the contents of
| the i386\lang directory from an XP Pro sp2 CD, which I don't have.
| Thanks for any advice you can offer.

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| oceanhai

Haha,

I have the same issue, since I brought this damn HP with WindowXP already installed, thus I don't have the original CD, and these other fonts I need kept asking for Window XP Home Edition CD-ROM, and it relates to C:\i386\lang file, which is such a headache to get from other site.

If anyone knows an easier way to get this thing work, please advise, thanks.

try this help page from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help: [...] t_Asian%29

You have to download individual packs from Microsoft website and some langaudes (Thai,etc) isnt listed.
Good luck

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