Hi all

the QUESTION is : is it possible to verify the native language of MS XP PRO (French or English) in DOS ??

if it is How do I do it ?? what is (are) the command(s) ??

Thank you allI don't know for sure, but I found SOMETHING that might work (it works on my COMPUTER). I see a registry key that appears to show the language version. Try this command:
Code: [Select]reg QUERY "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WOW\boot.description" /v language.dll
Assuming that works, you can use this code to set an environment variable:
Code: [Select]@echo off
setlocal
for /f "tokens=3*" %%a in ('reg query "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WOW\boot.description" /v language.dll ^| findstr /i language') do set Lang=%%a
echo Language is %Lang%
thanks !!

i'll try that

then if I want it to do a certasin action like :

call install_FR.bat if french or call install_eng if English.... who might I do that ??Then you cold do something like:
Code: [Select]if %Lang%==English call install_eng.bat
if %Lang%==French call install_fr.batfinaly the command you gave me wans'nt returning what I was looking for...

so I've decided to verify the existance of a known component and a Major difference between the 2 versions...

the Desktop/Bureau element

if one is Desktop : call int_eng.bat
if one is Bureau : call int_fra.bat

easy enough !! don't you think