another cyrillic keyboard mystery

[Anne Ingram]

Assuming your computer is running Windows 2000 or XP, the culprit is 
probably Windows File Protection.  Windows deems certain files critical 
(such as .dll files), and if one of those files is replaced using an 
unapproved method or removed, it will silently restore the previous file 
from its hidden cache.

Anne Ingram

Jules Levin wrote:
> Some time ago I appealed for help in restoring Russian to my MSWord 
> processor, which had mysteriously disappeared
> overnite.  I got several suggestions, which were pessimistic or 
> challenging enough for me to procrastinate the problem.
> However, recently an opportunity has come up where I really need Russian 
> capability, so I again looked into the situation.
> And amazingly, I was able to again acquire Russian capability (don't ask 
> me what I did...).
> But what I got was the Russian Russian keyboard, not the 
> Student/phonetic keyboard, which I cherish.
> Then I noticed in an overlooked corner of my desktop a folder KBDRUPH, 
> and sure enough, it contained KBDRUPH.dll.
> I inserted the latter into C:/1386, where by the way I found KBDRU1.dll 
> and KBDRU.dll.
> I changed names so that the phonetic keyboard was renamed KBDRU.dll.  
> But it didn't help--when I restarted MSWord 2003
> (and MSWord 2000--I have both), the keyboard layout remained standard, 
> not phonetic.
> I then moved the renamed files out of C:/1386 completely, leaving only 
> the student keyboard, now named KBDRU.dll.
> Again, only the standard keyboard appeared.
> Then, just for the heck of it, I removed KBDRU.dll from 1386 also.  And 
> again, I got the standard RUSSIAN keyboard functioning
> normally!!!
> So what is going on???
> I am truly puzzled by all this.  And I have been using student keyboards 
> almost since wordprocessing with cyrillic was possible.
> Jules Levin   
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Anne Ingram, Ph.D.
Instructional Technology Advisor, Instructional Technology Group
Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Virginia
ami2f at virginia.edu

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