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Windows 1. 0 Pinyin input for Traditional Chinese Pinyin Joe. Other pages Overview  Input methods setup Traditional character Pinyin input this page Simplified character input alternative MSZYHandwriting, speech, language packs. Windows Xp Pro Sp3 Greek Names. Advanced features  Help files in English Missing, broken, and just plain lame Chinese features. There are two choices for Hanyu Pinyin input of Traditional characters in Windows 1. Your choice should be based not only on your preference for or annoyance with one or the other, but also with attention to what encoding standard is being used by the people you communicate or exchange documents with most. The wrong choice will make it more likely youll experience technical problems later, like e mails turning into unreadable garbage. Microsoft Bopomofo also does Pinyin, but in the infinite wisdom of Microsoft the name was changed from New Phonetic to this in Chinese in Win 8. Lets call it MSZY now. This IME is available in the Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan language options described on the previous page. It offers modern Traditional characters including the Hong Kong set, and supports the Taiwan Big. International Unicode encoding standards. It offers the ability to enter Pinyin with or without tone numbers and phrase association, and includes tools like the IME Pad for lookup by radical and stroke count. Originally developed for Traditional characters only, it also offers a Simplified character option. Microsoft Pinyin, or MSPY, is based on the Simple. Fast version first introduced in 2. This IME is the standard Pinyin input method in the mainland China and Singapore language options described on the previous page. It offers a Sogou style typing experience that automatically inserts apostrophes between each sound. It offers very good phrase association but few other ways to narrow down your candidate list, and in the initial Windows 1. IME Pad and other tools last seen in Windows 7. Originally developed for Simplified characters, it also supports a very literary Traditional character set that for example includes only and not the modern, all in the mainland GB Code encoding standard. Jump to this Changing the MS Bopomofo keyboard to Hanyu Pinyin Assuming your language options are already set up to this point as described on the previous page go to the taskbar, open your language menu, and click Language preferences at the bottom. If you are using the old style desktop language bar, right clicking on the language button there will take you to the old style control panel, where you can make these same changes. You can jump to those instructions via this link so you dont have to scroll down. After. Language preferences, youll find yourself at the Time Language panel. In the left column, click on Region language, then on the right under Languages select the Traditional character region if youve selected Hong Kong as Ive recommended, or Taiwan, or Macau to reveal the buttons Click Options. On the next panel that appears, scroll down if necessary and find Microsoft Bopomofo, select it to reveal those buttons, and click Options there too In the Settings panel for Microsoft Bopomofo, find the Keyboard Layout section, and click on the menu below Choose your preferred keyboard layout Select Hanyu Pinyin from the menu Now close Settings, and youre done That is, unless you plan to use the Touch Keyboard for Zhuyin Fuhao input. Note this is not the on screen keyboard available under the Ease of Access settings. Many people accidentally find themselves in that keyboard first. To use the Touch Keyboard for a Chinese IME, you need this button available on the taskbar If you do not see that button, right click on the taskbar or on a touch screen, long press and release, and in the menu that pops up, select Show touch keyboard button Im going out of my way to mention this here because when you are in Zhuyin Fuhao input mode, the Touch Keyboard will have the Zhuyin symbols only, with no Roman letters on the keys, unless the full virtual keyboard is enabled. To enable the full keyboard, press the language key at the lower right, circled here Select the option circled here for the full virtual keyboard with Latin and Zhuyin keys. You may find this or another button greyed out, because Windows 1. PC. If you cannot access the full LatinZhuyin keyboard, that is probably because you are on a desktop PC or Windows 1. I have no hack to get around this, but you may find one out there on the web. In the above example, I am using a laptop without a touch screen. On this laptop, I can have the full LatinZhuyin keyboard, the handwriting keyboard see the Windows 1. Zhuyin only keyboard. It will not let me use the split keys keyboard, because that is only for devices with a touch screen. Again, I have no hack to get around this convenient feature, but it may be worth searching for one. Using the old style desktop language bar If you are using the desktop language bar which I show how to set up on the advanced features page, switch to the Traditional Chinese CH and Bopomofo icons, click on the Tool menu, and then select Properties In Microsoft Bopomofo Settings, select the Keyboard tab and change the preferred keyboard layout to Hanyu Pinyin. I refuse to even type the camel case they use there. Then click the OK button, and youre done Using the mainlandSingapore MSPY keyboard for Traditional characters. Use the Microsoft Pinyin MSPY IME to input Traditional Chinese characters if you must communicate with people in mainland China or others who have their systems set to the PRC national standard encoding called GB Code. Also go ahead and use it if youre not worried about these encoding issues at all. But using this IME can result in scrambled emails if you communicate with people who use TaiwanHKMacau settings. There are limitations to using this mode, some permanent and some that may be improved in future updates The Traditional characters available in MSPY since Windows 8. Traditional character regions. For example, it has but not zhi. When in Traditional character mode, the candidate list will not sort automatically based on frequency of usage. As of the launch of Windows 1. IME Pad for radical and stroke lookup is missing from this IME. See also my list of missing, broken, and just plain lame features in Windows 1. Im tracking problems, updates, and workarounds. We can only hope these missing features will reappear in a free update. Having said that, many people do use the MSPY IME to type Traditional characters, and if you are good at working in cizu and phrases it will be very fast. Heres how to set it up. Open the Language menu, and at the bottom select Language preferences, as circled in the image here. You can also get here by typing Language into the taskbar Search Windows box, or by navigating in from Start Settings. If you are using the classic desktop language bar, it offers a faster way to jump into the Advanced classic control panel where you can adjust the same option. You can click here to to jump to the instructions for the desktop language bar to avoid scrolling through the instructions for the new settings panels. This will open the Time and Language settings panel. In Region and language, in the Languages section, select China PRC to reveal the buttons Select Options, and then in the next settings panel scroll down to the Microsoft Pinyin keyboard, select it to reveal the buttons, and select Options there Now in the settings panel for Microsoft Pinyin, change the characters set menu to Traditional Chinese. Personalization will be disabled, because the candidate list will not sort automatically when you are using Traditional characters in this IME. As of the Windows 1. Compatibility Fixes for Windows 1. Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista Windows 1. Applies to. Windows 1. Windows 8. 1. Windows 8. Windows 7. Windows Server 2. Windows Server 2. R2. You can fix some compatibility issues that are due to the changes made between Windows operating system versions. These issues can include User Account Control UAC restrictions. Important. The Application Compatibility Toolkit ACT installs a 3. Compatibility Administrator. You must use the 3. You will receive an error message if you try to use the wrong version. If you start the Compatibility Administrator as an Administrator with elevated privileges, all repaired applications can run successfully however, virtualization and redirection might not occur as expected. To verify that a compatibility fix addresses an issue, you must test the repaired application by running it under the destination user account. Compatibility Fixes. The following table lists the known compatibility fixes for all Windows operating systems that have been released from Windows Vista through Windows 1. The fixes are listed in alphabetical order. And. 16. Bit. Aggregate. Blts. Applications that are mitigated by 81. This layer aggregates all the blt operations and improves performance. And. 16. Bit. DXMax. Win. Mode. Applications that use DX89 and are mitigated by the 81. This layer mitigates applications that exhibit graphical corruption in full screen mode. And. 16. Bit. GDIRedraw. This fix repairs applications that use GDI and that work in 8 bit color mode. The application is forced to repaint its window on Realize. Palette. Accel. Gdip. Flush. This fix increases the speed of Gdip. Flush, which has perf issues in DWM. Aoa. Mp. 4Converter. This fix resolves a display issue for the Ao. A Mp. 4 Converter. BIOSRead. This problem is indicated when an application cannot access the DevicePhysical. Memory object beyond the kernel mode drivers, on any of the Windows Server 2. The fix enables OEM executable. Get. System. Firmware. Table function instead of the Nt. Open. Section function when the BIOS is queried for the DevicePhysical memory information. Block. Runas. Interactive. User. This problem occurs when Install. Shield creates installers and uninstallers that fail to complete and that generate error messages or warnings. The fix blocks Install. Shield from setting the value of Run. As registry keys to Interactive. User Because Interactive. User no longer has Administrator rights. Change. Folder. Path. To. XPStyle. This fix is required when an application cannot return shell folder paths when it uses the SHGet. Folder API. The fix intercepts the SHGet. Folder path request to the common appdata file path and returns the Windows XP style file path instead of the Windows Vista style file path. Clear. Last. Error. Statuson. Intialize. Critical. Section. This fix is indicated when an application fails to start. The fix modifies the Initialize. Critical. Section function call so that it checks the NTSTATUS error code, and then sets the last error to ERRORSUCCESS. Copy. HKCUSettings. From. Other. Users. This problem occurs when an applications installer must run in elevated mode and depends on the HKCU settings that are provided for other users. The fix scans the existing user profiles and tries to copy the specified keys into the HKEYCURRENTUSER registry area. You can control this fix further by entering the relevant registry keys as parameters that are separated by the Symbol for example SoftwareMy. CompanyKey. 1SoftwareMy. CompanyKey. 2. Correct. Create. Brush. Indirect. Hatch. The problem is indicated by an access violation error message that displays and when the application fails when you select or crop an image. The fix corrects the brush style hatch value, which is passed to the Create. Brush. Indirect function and enables the information to be correctly interpreted. Correct. File. Paths. The problem is indicated when an application tries to write files to the hard disk and is denied access or receives a file not found or path not found error message. The fix modifies the file path names to point to a new location on the hard disk. Note. For more detailed information about the Correct. File. Paths application fix, see Using the Correct. File. Paths Fix. We recommend that you use this fix together with the Correct. File. Paths. Uninstall fix if you are applying it to a setup installation file. Correct. File. Paths. Uninstall. This problem occurs when an uninstalled application leaves behind files, directories, and links. The fix corrects the file paths that are used by the uninstallation process of an application. Note. For more detailed information about this fix, see Using the Correct. File. Paths. Uninstall Fix. We recommend that you use this fix together with the Correct. File. Paths fix if you are applying it to a setup installation file. Correct. Shell. Execute. HWNDThis problem occurs when you start an executable. HWND value when it calls the Shell. ExecuteEx function. The fix intercepts the Shell. ExecuteEx calls, and then inspects the HWND value. If the value is invalid, this fix enables the call to use the currently active HWND value. Custom. NCRender. This fix instructs DWM to not render the non client area, thereby forcing the application to do its own NC rendering. This often gives windows an XP look. Delay. Apply. Flag. This fix applies a KERNEL, USER, or PROCESS flag if the specified DLL is loaded. You can control this fix further by typing the following command at the command prompt DLLName FlagType HexidecimalValue. Where the DLLName is the name of the specific DLL, including the file extension. FlagType is KERNEL, USER, or PROCESS, and a HexidecimalValue, starting with 0x and up to 6. Note. The PROCESS flag type can have a 3. You can separate multiple entries with a backslash. Deprecated. Service. Shim. The problem is indicated when an application tries to install a service that has a dependency on a deprecated service. An error message displays. The fix intercepts the Create. Service function calls and removes the deprecated dependency service from the lp. Dependencies parameter. You can control this fix further by typing the following command at the command prompt DeprecatedServiceAppServiceDeprecatedService. AppService. 2Where DeprecatedService is the name of the service that has been deprecated and AppService is the name of the specific application service that is to be modified for example, Nt. Lm. SspWMI. Note. If you do not provide an AppService name, the deprecated service will be removed from all newly created services. Note. You can separate multiple entries with a forward slash. Direct. XVersion. Lie. This problem occurs when an application fails because it does not find the correct version number for Direct. X. The fix modifies the DXDIAGN Get. Prop function call to return the correct Direct. X version. You can control this fix further by typing the following command at the command prompt MAJORVERSION. MINORVERSION. LETTERFor example, 9. Detector. DWM8. And. Bit. This fix offeres mitigation for applications that work in 81. Windows 8. Disable. And. 16. Bit. D3. DThis fix improves performance of 81. D3. D and do not mix directdraw. Disable. 8And. 16. Bit. Modes. This fix disables 81. Disable. DWMThe problem occurs when some objects are not drawn or object artifacts remain on the screen in an application. The fix temporarily disables the Windows Aero menu theme functionality for unsupported applications. Disable. Fade. Animations. The problem is indicated when an application fade animations, buttons, or other controls do not function properly. The fix disables the fade animations functionality for unsupported applications. Disable. Theme. Menus. The problem is indicated by an application that behaves unpredictably when it tries to detect and use the correct Windows settings. The fix temporarily disables the Windows Aero menu theme functionality for unsupported applications. Disable. Windows.