How to Localize the Windows Vista RTM Sidebar ?

[Milky]

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:

[ricktendo]

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 directory

Currently VAIO only supports the en-US folder

You 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

[Milky]

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 language

Ok, 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...

[ricktendo]

Move the gadget settings files out of the en-US or fr-FR folders into the main .Gadget folder and this can be solved

BTW 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 translation

sbdrop.zip

Do 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)

[Milky]

Hi all,

Thank you for your help, Ricktendo64.

I have made all this configuration for the Sidebar in French :

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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.dll

Execute 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.dll

This 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.manifest

C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\fr-FR\

sbdrop.dll.mui

Sidebar.exe.mui

C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\

...

All the gadgets with te sub-directories \fr-FR\

...

C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\Shared Gadgets\

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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.

[ricktendo]

Perfect, thats how you do it... It would be easier if they updated VAIO but its not gonna happen anytime soon