Direct link and download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94B6C536-E49C-4602-8D3C-37E8BDBE12DB&displaylang=en
the LIP provides limited customization of languages, unlike MUI that are full language packs. (see below for links for full MUI packages and tool to install them on all versions of vista)
This package applies to the following languages:
. Albanian*
. Bosnian - Cyrillic*
. Bosnian - Latin*
. Gujarati*
. Hindi*
. Indonesian*
. Kazakh*
. Macedonian*
. Marathi*
. Serbian - Cyrillic*
. Tamil*
. Uzbek - Latin*
. Vietnamese*
. Welsh
Full language packs (MUI) download:
Windows Vista SP1 Language Packs 32-bit -Official-
Free tool to install language packs on ALL versions of vista:
Vistalizator - Install Vista Language Packs MUI on
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About Vistalizator
Did you buy a Vista laptop from abroad and want it to talk to you in your mother language?
(You can use this on a desktop too, have in mind this is not a microsoft supported tool but one made by someone else)
Try Vistalizator - this tool allows you to change display language in Vista editions other than (officially supported) Ultimate:
Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium and Business.
Features
- Change Vista display language in less than 5 minutes!
- Uses official Microsoft language packs
- You can install all 35 languages and switch between them easily
- Works in 32-bit Vista
- Works in 64-bit Vista (new)
- Compatible with Vista Service Pack 1
- User Account Control (UAC) compliant - prompts for administrative privileges
- No file is overwritten/changed during language installation - except for language upgrade after Vista SP1 installation
Go here to download this software http://www.froggie.sk/ Vistalizator - change display language in Vista Home and Business
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We have made available updated Language Packs for users using Windows Vista SP1 as well as those running Windows Vista RTM. For those running SP1, the Language Packs should be showing up for you under Windows Update.
The specific language packs which are being released are as follows:
German
English
Spanish
French
Japanese
Korean
Bulgarian
Czech
Danish
Greek
Estonian
Finnish
Hungarian
Italian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Norwegian
Dutch
Polish
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Slovak
Slovenian
Swedish
Arabic
Hebrew
Croatian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Serbian (Latin)
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Russian
Download : Arabic
Download : Bulgarian
Download : Chinese (Simplified)
Download : Chinese (Traditional)
Download : Crotian
Download : Czech
Download : Danish
Download : Dutch
Download : English
Download : Estonian
Download : Finnish
Download : French
Download : German
Download : Greek
Download : Hebrew
Download : Hungarian
Download : Italian
Download : Japanese
Download : Korean
Download : Latvian
Download : Lithuanian
Download : Norwegian
Download : Polish
Download : Portuguese (Brazil)
Download : Portuguese (Portugal)
Download : Romanian
Download : Russian
Download : Serbian (Latin)
Download : Slovak
Download : Slovenian
Download : Spanish
Download : Swedish
Download : Thai
Download : Turkish
Download : Ukrainian
To read about a free program that allows you to INSTALL VISTA LANGUAGE PACKS MUI ON ALL VERSIONS OF VISTA, read my other post on this subject here:
http://computerboom.blogspot.com/2008/05/vistalizator-install-vista-language.html
Written by computerboom on May 10th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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