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Configuring and Using International Features of Windows

How To Install Multilingual User Interface (MUI) from the command line

To facilitate quiet mode installations, the MUISetup program accepts parameters entered at the command line. This can be useful either during an unattended installation of MUI, or simply during the addition and/or removal of user interface languages on the system.

To use these command line parameters, use the command line to navigate to the directory containing the muisetup program, and enter MUISetup.exe followed by any of the following accepted switches:

-i

Specifies the user interface language(s) to be installed

-d

Specifies the default user interface language (applied to all new user accounts and used in places such as the Winlogon screen)

-u

Specifies the user interface language(s) to be uninstalled

-r

Specifies that the reboot message should not be displayed

-s

Specifies that the installation complete message should not be displayed

Windows XP introduces 2 additional parameters: 

-l

The letter L. Matches the language of non-Unicode programs with the default user language;this setting is ignored unless /d is set)

-f

Matches the default shell user interface font with the default user language; this setting is ignored unless /d and /l are set). Only applicable for Japanese language user interface.

The -i, -d and -u switches take languages as four digit hexadecimal LANGID values. LANGIDs should be separated by a space as in the following example:

e:\muisetup.exe -i 0411 0409 0c0a -d 0411 -u 0414 040c

See our List of LANGIDs for all the four digit hexadecimal LANGID values supported by Windows 2000 Multilanguage.

Note: You should make sure that the user interface languages you install are supported by the installed Language Groups.

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