Multilanguage Support May Appear Disabled After Upgrade

• Microsoft Windows 98

SYMPTOMS

After you upgrade your computer from a Pan European version of Microsoft Windows 95 to Windows 98, multilanguage support may appear to be disabled in the Add/Remove Programs tool, but the Cyrillic character set may still work on your computer.

CAUSE

This problem can occur if you have the Cyrillic character set enabled before you upgrade your computer to Windows 98.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, add multilanguage support after you upgrade your computer:

NOTE: You can safely ignore this problem if the Cyrillic character set is the only multilanguage character set you use.

1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Add/Remove Programs.



2. Click the Windows Setup tab, click to select the Multilanguage Support check box, and then click OK.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbui win98 
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: June 23, 1999