Froggie saved my day!

[polonus]

Howdy malware fighters,

Together with the wife installed her new acer vista notebook. At the option to install a language for the recovery console we wrongly choose French, where it should have been Dutch, this because of unfamiliarity with the notepad cursor handling. Now we were in dire waters. Could not go back on our tracks, no multi-language support, because that comes only with Vista Ultimate. They wanna see money for everything now, won't they?
No installation dvd or cd there with the new notebook, no way to go back to that critical moment, you get to choose installation language only once!
But there was froggie with his language install program Vistualizer. Downloaded this jewel of a proggie on an USB stick, renamed the Dutch language 32 bit executable into Nl-nl-cab, and put it in the same folder, and "alez mes enfants".
It installed beautifully, even while not on Vista Ultimate but Home Premium, then we had to change the configuration languages back to Dutch for the clock, the keyboard, the location, and all now runs like clockwork, and in good and decent and efficient wooden shoe Dutch.
Saved me 60 bucks worth of re installation cd or some 100 euro or the pain to reinstall at a shop. So if you took your puter over somewhere abroad  and want to change the lingo: froggie is the man. This Slovak saved my day, and that of my wife too: http://www.froggie.sk/download.html

polonus

[bob3160]

Would a Vista Recovery Disc have helped you ?

[polonus]

Hi bob3160,

I knew you had it, but thanks to froggie I have made the changes completely now and also made the language changes for the clock and the local settings etc. Now it works like a charm. I think this is mainly a European problem, because Home Premium Vista only give you one change, then later it says you had one language install, froggies program Vistalizator saved my glorious behind. But it is good to have your Vista Recovery Disk. Question. Does it come in the original version, or does it also have SP1? Anyways I will have it for the proverbial rainy day. Thanks, bob3160, you know where it is about, right on the ball as always,

Damian

[Lisandro]

Recovery console install on Vista? How did you do it?

[polonus]

Hi Tech,

The initial recovery console install was made in French abusively. Then all the options had gone out, if I had played ball with them. The unofficial program Vistalizator just changed the French MUI (changed into a cab install) into Dutch MUI, allowed an added language install with the 156 MB executable file renamed to NL-nl-cab. Does not matter what, everything on screen and prompt and messages now are in Dutch. For the clock, the local settings, that could be done through the normal configuration settings, but you do that after you used Vistalizator initially. Vistalizator is not officially MS supported, but what the heck, avaricious producer only gave me a partition install and nothing further to restore (no recovery DVD - only a four language pre-install), or the option to buy a packet of restore CD's that would cost us an additional 60 euro's. These days are quite different from when there was a free software packet in the deal (Office now comes with a 60 days trial package), so you can find more on the Internet now than the producer offers you. The only one with the old fashioned answer to these questions was bob3160, great bloke as always, and DavidR with the link that took me to froggie's site.

polonus

[FreewheelinFrank]

The initial recovery console install was made in French abusively.

Well I know the French have a reputation for being less than friendly to some foreigners, but I didn't realise it had got that bad... 

[DavidR]

Well when you combine Microsoft's very user friendly (not) interface with the French language, I can see how it might be misinterpreted as abusive

[Lisandro]

I've tested Virtualizer and install two other languages. Worked like a charm on Vista Business 32bits.
But I need to revert back my partition. Anyway, when I need, I know how to do it