Windows Vista Lounge

The Vista OS has a great set of language packs that are free for those who want the system to oeprate int heir native language. In this case the choice was for Russian, but the version of Vista was Home Premium. I’ve installed the Russian (Cyrillic) language pack on the ultimate version and it worked very well, every menu choice was in Russian! But it looks like you can’t have that feature unless you upgrade?

 Seems like Microsoft would let people buy the language pack rather than have to upgrade everything. But if you’re trying to get a Russian version of the OS to work, make sure it’s Vista Ultimate, or you wont be able to download the packs through the update service.

Has anyone found a work around for this? Please don’t say “buy a Mac” that is so last year.

Here is a simple trick that took me a bit of time to figure out. In XP you could set “single click” options fairly easy through control panel. Unfortunately on this particular installation of Vista (Tablet PC) there was no such option. However in a place not so obvious…there was a cure. I went to “Computer” off the start flag or button whichever you want to call it and edited the folder options to allow single click ability. Poof, a single click of anything on the desktop was the same as a double click!

Hope this helps those looking to resolve this handy feature.