Cyrillic keyboards and XP hell

[James M Tonn (jtonn@Princeton.EDU)]

Jules,
   Does this Dell computer happen to have a 64-bit processor (with the 64-bit version of XP)? Apparently there are some major problems with nonstandard keyboard layouts under this setup.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Jules Levin <ameliede at EARTHLINK.NET>
Date: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:24 pm
Subject: [SEELANGS] Cyrillic keyboards and XP hell
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

> Dear colleagues,
> This may be a problem for Microsoft, but in my experience one is 
> liable to get a techie who doesn't even know that one can enable 
> Russian.
> I always managed to have the phonic keyboard in earlier versions of 
> MW (not to mention earlier wordprocessing programs), but when I
> attempted to install it in my Dell with XP it failed.  I continued 
> to 
> "use" the standard keyboard, but it was not really useful to me, 
> since I am
> used to typing fast, in English or Russian using the phonic.
> Anyway, last week I wanted to find something on Russian google, so 
> I 
> tediously pecked in the word in Cyrillic and then pasted it into 
> Russiangoogle.  It was successful.  I am mentioning this to show 
> that one 
> week ago I still had Cyrillic capability.
> Today I discovered to my horror that my MW no longer allowed me to 
> switch to Russian.  When I checked my Languages selections under
> settings, Russian had been deleted--only English and Lithuanian 
> remained.So I added Russian, but when I clicked apply, I was told 
> "Windows 
> could not properly load the Russian keyboard layout".
> I tried all sorts of ways to do it, but failed.
> I checked in System32 and did find kbdru.dll and kbdru1.dll, as 
> well 
> as some file kbdru without an extension.
> I also went back to Languages and as a test was able to add Italian 
> with an Italian keyboard without any difficulties.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?  Any suggestions?
> Jules Levin   
> 
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