Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft 2000 is a Unicode based operationg system developed by Microsoft Corportation. It's the successor of Windows NT.
To enable CJK-support for your Windows XP,

• Click on Start
• Go to Settings
• Click on Control Panel
• Double click Regional Options
• Check Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
• Click on Apply
• If neccessary insert the Windows 2000 installation cd. Your system will reboot afterwards

To install the IME's follow the following procedure

• Click on Start
• Go to Settings
• Click on Control Panel
• Double click Regional Options
• Click on the Input Locales tab

• Clik on Add

• Select a language
• Select a Keyboard layout/IME
• Click on OK

Input Methods available in Windows 2000

These are the IME one can choice from for the several Chinese languages

If you can't install the Microsoft IME's you can also install the free Google Pinyin IME
More information on input methods

Pictures taken from http://www.andante.org/ime_win2k.html

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