Milky Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Hi all,I have install the Windows Vista RTM Sidebar from ricktendo64.It's working great in US language on my French WinXP !I've remplaced all the files from the originals French files Vista to the SidebarWindows Vista RTM Sidebar.All working in French, only if I keep all the originals directories en-US, just remplacing the files.But from the originals directories of the French Windows Vista Sidebar, the directories are fr-FR.If I directly copy a French Gadget in my modified French Windows Vista RTM Sidebar, the Gadgets don't appears.I must rename the directory fr-FR to en-US, and it's working fine.I've tryed to change the registry keys, all the LOCALE informations about the Windows Vista RTM Sidebar, from en-US to fr-FR, but there is no change.Anybody have a solution to localize the US Vista RTM Sidebar from ricktendo64 to an other country language.(I'm not really good in English, all appologies for my language.) :sweatingbullets: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 OK for the gadgets you are going to have to keep the french gadget XML, CSS and JS files in the en-US folders... Or you can move the files and folders out of the dir into the main .Gadget directoryCurrently VAIO only supports the en-US folderYou can change the language of the Sidebar, but you have to re-patch sidebar.exe with skins then VAIO... This is how you do it.- Download Sidebar Skin Patches- Replace the english sbdrop.dll.mui & Sidebar.exe.mui with the french ones (leave the folder named en-US)- Extract the Skin patches and apply the skin you want to the sidebar.exe exectutable that is included with the skin patches- Copy it to "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\" overwriting the old one- Right click on sidebar.exe and select "Patch and Run Vista Executable"VAIO will take whatever language mui files from en-US folder and patch the sidebar with that specific language Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milky Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 Thank you very much for your help.- Download Sidebar Skin Patches- Replace the english sbdrop.dll.mui & Sidebar.exe.mui with the french ones (leave the folder named en-US)- Extract the Skin patches and apply the skin you want to the sidebar.exe exectutable that is included with the skin patches- Copy it to "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\" overwriting the old one- Right click on sidebar.exe and select "Patch and Run Vista Executable".It's exactly what I've already done, and it's working fine for the french language of the sidebar.Currently VAIO only supports the en-US folder...VAIO will take whatever language mui files from en-US folder and patch the sidebar with that specific languageOk, the problem come from the VAIO tool, it's only support US laguage and it's impossible to patch the system to use in other folders country... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Move the gadget settings files out of the en-US or fr-FR folders into the main .Gadget folder and this can be solvedBTW the sidebar.exe does not use the en-US folder once its patched with VAIO. So for cosmetic reasons you can name it to fr-FR (but if you are going to use VAIO to patch vista executable then rename it temporarily to en-US then name it back to fr-FR)OH here is the original vista sbdrop.dll that you need to complete the sidebar english to french translationsbdrop.zipDo the same thing you did with sidebar.exe, Right click and choose "Patch Vista Library" (make sure that sbdrop.dll.mui in en-US is the french one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milky Posted July 14, 2007 Author Share Posted July 14, 2007 Hi all,Thank you for your help, Ricktendo64.I have made all this configuration for the Sidebar in French :---------------------------------------------------------------------Install the VAIO program.Copy all the originals files from the French Vista sidebar in the directory ' C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\ 'In the directory C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\ , patch this files : (Using te right click and select "Pacth Vista Library") sbdrop.dll sidebar.exe wlsrvc.dllExecute this command from the Command Prompt : "C:\Program Files\VAIOXP\Tools\regtlib.exe" "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe"Copy the file ' C:\WINDOWS\system32\regsvr32.exe ' in the directory ' C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\ 'Copy the file ' C:\Program Files\VAIOXP\Libraries\manifest.xml ' in the directory ' C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\ 'Rename the file ' C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\manifest.xml ' to ' C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\regsvr32.exe.manifest 'Execute this commands from the Command Prompt :CD "C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar".\REGSVR32 /s sbdrop.dll.\REGSVR32 /s wlsrvc.dllThis is the list of existing directories:C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\ sbdrop.dll sbdrop.dll.manifest settings.ini sidebar.exe sidebar.exe.manifest wlsrvc.dll wlsrvc.dll.manifest regsvr32.exe regsvr32.exe.manifestC:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\fr-FR\ sbdrop.dll.mui Sidebar.exe.muiC:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\ ... All the gadgets with te sub-directories \fr-FR\ ...C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Shared Gadgets\---------------------------------------------------------------------Whell, all working good, the sidebar is in French, but the gadgets do not appears.To solve this I can rename the folders of the gadgets from /fr-FR/ to /en-US/or I can move all the files from the /fr-FR/ to the root of the gadget.I hope there is maybe a better solution later, beacause it's not very simple for no experimet users.Thank you again for your help, Ricktendo64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Perfect, thats how you do it... It would be easier if they updated VAIO but its not gonna happen anytime soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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