Interesting Windows 2000 behavior...
Aug. 2nd, 2001 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI managed to hack together a new DLL for the Russian keyboard layout for Windows 2000 (and I also got another DLL from fellow LJer ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
avva [thanks!]), so - paraphrasing the lyrics of Sixteen Tons, "if this file don't getcha, then the other one will." Or should.
Or so I thought.
Copying the new DLL into the \WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory succeeds, but upon rebooting the machine, the new DLL is gone and is replaced with the original. I then copied the new DLL into that directory and a subdirectory called DLLCACHE.
Same result.
It would appear that Windows 2000 has the capability to repair itself from deliberate (and, I suppose, inadvertent) changes to system files. It's nice, on the one hand, that it's so difficult for a naive user to mess with the system, even logged in as the Administrator. On the other hand, it'd be nice to be able to have a phonetic keyboard layout under Windows 2000, too.
I wonder if the key is to place the DLL into the directory under a new name and then edit (shudder) the Registry?
No time to experiment. Galina told someone that I'd go "on the Internet" to research what kind of cars one can buy for $2,000, and I haven't the foggiest notion of where to look, or what factors are important. As far as I can tell, nothing beats going out into the trenches and seeing what there is to see.
Cheers...
avva [thanks!]), so - paraphrasing the lyrics of Sixteen Tons, "if this file don't getcha, then the other one will." Or should.Or so I thought.
Copying the new DLL into the \WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory succeeds, but upon rebooting the machine, the new DLL is gone and is replaced with the original. I then copied the new DLL into that directory and a subdirectory called DLLCACHE.
Same result.
It would appear that Windows 2000 has the capability to repair itself from deliberate (and, I suppose, inadvertent) changes to system files. It's nice, on the one hand, that it's so difficult for a naive user to mess with the system, even logged in as the Administrator. On the other hand, it'd be nice to be able to have a phonetic keyboard layout under Windows 2000, too.
I wonder if the key is to place the DLL into the directory under a new name and then edit (shudder) the Registry?
No time to experiment. Galina told someone that I'd go "on the Internet" to research what kind of cars one can buy for $2,000, and I haven't the foggiest notion of where to look, or what factors are important. As far as I can tell, nothing beats going out into the trenches and seeing what there is to see.
Cheers...
