How to install additional display language in Window Vista

I need anybody who master in window vista to help me. How to install additional language and change the display language in Window Vista.

Can attach the photo the photo(s) or step by step guidance by reply this topic.

Thank you.

language where? for the whole OS or a specific program like IE?
according to windows help:
[quote=windows help]
Install a display language

You can change the language Windows uses to display text in wizards, dialog boxes, menus, and other items in the user interface. Some display languages are installed by default; others require you to install additional language files.

Before you can install a display language, you need access to the language files. These files can be on your computer, on a computer on your network, or on your Windows DVD; or they can be downloaded from the web. For more information, see How do I get additional language files?.

To install a Language Interface Pack (LIP), double-click the file to open the setup program. To install a Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI), follow these steps:

• open Regional and Language Options
  
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  Regional and language options can be found in Control Panel
  
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• Click the Keyboards and Languages tab.
  
• Under Display Language, click Install/uninstall languages, and then follow the steps. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  

Note

The Display language section will only be visible if you have already installed a LIP or if your edition of Windows supports MUI. MUI packs are only available in Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Enterprise.

After you install a display language, you need to set your computer to use that language. For more information, see Change the display language.

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How do I get additional language files?

[quote=windows help]
How do I get additional language files?

With additional language files, you can change the display language on your computer so that you can view wizards, dialog boxes, menus, Help topics, and other items in Windows in a different language.

There are two types of language files:

Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI).‌ Windows Vista MUIs provide a translated version of most of the user interface. MUIs require a license to be used and are only available with Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Enterprise.
Windows Vista Language Interface Pack (LIP).‌ Windows Vista LIPs provide a translated version of the most widely used areas of the user interface. LIPs are freely available for download on the Microsoft website, and most LIPs can be installed and used on any edition of Windows Vista. Because not all of the user interface is translated, LIPs require at least one parent language. The parts of the user interface that are not translated into the LIP language are displayed in the parent language. When you download a LIP, you are given the parent language requirements for that language. The parent language pack needs to be installed before the LIP can be installed.

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Change the Display language:

[quote=windows help]
Change the display language

The display language is the language that Windows uses in wizards, dialog boxes, menus, Help and Support topics, and other items in the user interface. Some display languages are installed by default, and others require you to install additional language files. When you change the display language, it is changed for your user account and is not changed on the Welcome screen. If you want to set the display language for multiple users or the Welcome screen, see Apply regional and language settings to reserved accounts.

open Regional and Language Options

1. Click the Keyboards and Languages tab.
   
2. Under Display language, choose a language from the list, and then click OK.
   

Note

If you don't see the list of display languages, you need to install additional language files first. For more information, see Install a display language.

When you change the display language, the text in menus and dialog boxes for some programs might not be in the language that you want. This happens because the program might not support Unicode. For more information about changing the text in menus and dialog boxes for programs that do not support Unicode, see Change the system locale.

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Change the system locale:

[quote=windows help]
Change the system locale

The system locale is the language that is used to display the text in menus and dialog boxes for programs that do not use Unicode. You might need to change the default system locale when you install additional display languages on your computer. Selecting a different language for the system locale does not affect the language in menus and dialog boxes for Windows or other programs that do use Unicode.

open Regional and Language Options.

Click the Administrative tab, and then, under Language for non-Unicode programs (System Locale), click Change system locale. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
Select the language, and then click OK.

To restart your computer, click Restart now.

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Huh, what?

Its a pain to install additional language, since it requires an original windows disc. So, when installing a fresh copy of windows, make sure to include the language you want to use.

I'm trying to install Japanese fonts on my pc but it keeps asking me for the damn windows disc, and it won't recognise the disc I put in.

Even then, the font's already in the windows installation, just need a way to get it to work.

yaya...from wat i saw in the post,it is really complex steps to instal.spikejones, u r really good in computer stuff!!

i just refer to documentation to find out things I dont know about.
sorry about all the broken links in there. for some reason when i copied and pasted all those directions, it literally pasted the links in there as well - which would have been all good and everything had the system not decided to put it as a local link, so when you try to click the link it is looking for the help documentation on the server instead of your machine.

perhaps the admin could look into changing the behavior of the text editor here to remove all formatting when things are pasted? or to change the link parsing rules to NOT change them to be local server links? cause the original link had text like %system root%/blah blah.. - which the software interpreted to be the system root of the server. it shouldnt be changing it like that, but rather just going with the flow of it, leaving the link as intended.

spikejones , See the below picture.
That is my problem. No install/ uninstall display language button.

SO how i want to install chinese display language and others language?

what version of Vista do you have? If you only have Vista Home (Basic or Premium), you can not install language packs. see the NOTE: in the post above in the first section.

you can only add language packs on Vista Ultimate and Vista Enterprise.

You may be able to reinstall the whole operating system and set the local and language at that point and it should hopefully install with the language you want, but I can't say for sure as I always only install with US settings. But back to my original question, is there a specific reason you want Chinese added? like to be able to read Chinese email or something?

Yeah, I have some music player that must have chinese language display to read it.