Anith Gopal

So there was a blog from way back in 2005 entitled How to turn off the CAPS LOCK key . Then, earlier this year, Jim Freedom commented : I love the Caps Lock key but hate the Windows 7 notification animation

No big news today, this is an update less sensational than the original story. The equivalent story in newspaper terms would be buried on page 20, even if the original story was front page headlines.

The other day, in “What kind of soup?” is not exactly a soup question, is it? , I mentioned that I might have a technical example of the issue of Not exactly a soup question, is it? so think of this blog as me finally getting around to doing that

Apologies for the title (note to self: never author blog titles under the inflluence to try to appear as a cunning linguist!) So it was just the other day that Yong asked: Ok, so it looks like we got a regression (or a design change) on Vista/Windows 7 from Windows XP. On XP/W2K3: ============Start of regopts.txt============ [RegionalSettings] InputLocale = 0409:00000409,0404:E0020404 ============End of regopts.txt============ // Just having this adds for example the Chinese Traditional (ChangJie) keyboard. On Windows Vista SP2/W2K8 SP2 ============Start of regopts.xml============ <gs:GlobalizationServices xmlns:gs=”urn:longhornGlobalizationUnattend”>   <!– User List–>   <gs:UserList>     <gs:User UserID=”Current” CopySettingsToSystemAcct=”true” />   </gs:UserList>   <!–System locale–>   <gs:SystemLocale Name=”zh-TW”/>   <gs:InputPreferences>     <!–en-US–>       <gs:InputLanguageID Action=”add” ID=”0409:00000409″ Default=”true”/>     <!–zh-TW-ChangJie–>       <gs:InputLanguageID Action=”add” ID=”0404:E0020404″/>   </gs:InputPreferences> </gs:GlobalizationServices> ============End of regopts.xml============ It fails with: Unexpected Failure.  Unsupported parameter

As a by the way, this blog does NOT represent anything beyond my own personal thoughts based on the way I think things are going. You could even blame it on my Tegretol dosage, to be perfectly honest (if the pain were not so intense I’d have skipped this med for sure).